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Intensity of Polarised Light

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An unpolarised beam of intensity 2a² passes through a thin polaroid. Assuming zero absorption in the polaroid, the intensity of emergent plane polarised light will be

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a²

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2a²

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C

√2 a²

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a²/ √2

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