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Q.What is Brewster's law? Derive the formula for Brewster's angle.
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →At Brewster's angle the reflected and refracted rays are perpendicular, which forces .
Brewster's law states that when unpolarised light is incident on a transparent medium at a particular angle, called the polarising angle or Brewster's angle , the reflected light is completely plane-polarised, and the tangent of this angle equals the refractive index of the medium:
Derivation: At Brewster's angle, the reflected ray and the refracted ray are found (experimentally, and consistent with the polarised-dipole-radiation picture) to be mutually perpendicular:
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