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Q.How is polarisation of light obtained by scattering of light?

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Step 1. The electric field of incident (unpolarised) sunlight drives the electrons in an air molecule to oscillate in the plane perpendicular to the sunlight's own direction of travel.

Step 2. An observer at 90°90° to the original sunlight direction can only receive scattered radiation whose oscillation has a component transverse to the observer's own line of sight, since an accelerating charge radiates no energy along its own axis of oscillation. …

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