Complete the passage to describe polarization.
Unpolarized light is filtered by a polarizer that has a vertical plane, allowing light with
oscillations to pass through and blocking light that oscillates in other directions.
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Unpolarized light is filtered by a polarizer that has a vertical plane, allowing light with vertical oscillations to pass through and blocking light that oscillates in other directions. The transmitted beam is linearly polarized (its electric field oscillates only in the vertical direction); for unpolarized incident light the intensity after an ideal polarizer is half the original. If a second polarizer (analyzer) is rotated by an angle θ relative to the vertical, the transmitted intensity follows Malus’s law: I = I0 cos^2θ.
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