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Q.What will you observe if you look at the source through two polarizers and rotate one of them around the path of light for one full rotation?

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The brightness varies — it is maximum when the two axes are parallel and drops to zero (twice in a full turn) when they are crossed (perpendicular), following Malus' law.

The first polarizer plane-polarizes the light; the second then transmits I = I₁cos²θ (Malus' law), where θ is the angle between the two axes. As you rotate the second polarizer through one full turn, the transmitted intensity goes bright → dark → bright → dark → bright: maximum at θ = 0° and 180° (axes parallel), zero at …

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