You pick up your older mobile phone to see who just sent you a text,...

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   You pick up your older mobile phone to see who justsent you a text, but its dark ! Your sunglasses are blocking allpixels, all colors from your phone.

a. Aha, with a reminder from the textbook or the interwebs, youknow what polarization the glare has, so you also know whatpolarization the light from your phone has. Explain.

b. You rotate your phone from its normal orientation by 10degrees, then 30 degrees, then 45, then to 90 where you see itsfull intensity and successfully read your text. Calculate whatfraction of full intensity (or equivalently what fraction of fullpower) makes it through your sunglasses in each case ?

c. Some energy did not make it to your eye. In the case ofsunglasses, can you guess where does the energy go?

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a Answere The Sun glasses are vertically aligned polaridesbecause light coming from horizontal reflecting surface arehorizontally aligned Now watching at the phone with sun glassesand it is completely black it means the    See Answer
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