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State Brewster's law of polarisation of light.

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Brewster's law states that tangent of angle of polarisation is equal to the refractive index of the medium.
i.e, $n = tan i_{p}$
where, $n$ is the refractive index and $i_{p}$ is the angle of polarisation.

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