Q. (a) Why unpolarised light from a source do not show a variation in intensity when viewed through a polaroid which is rotated? Show with the help of a diagram, how unpolarised light from Sun gets linearly polarised by scattering.
(b) Three identical polaroid sheets
P1, P2 and
P3 are oriented so that the pass axis of
P2 and
P3 are inclined at angles of
60o and
90o respectively with the pass axis of
P1. A monochromatic source S of unpolarised light of intensity
I0 is kept in front of the polaroid sheet
P1 as shown in the figure. Determine the intensities of light as observed by the observer at O, when polaroid
P3 is rotated with respect to
P2 at angles
θ=30o and
60o.