MHT CET2010PhysicsWave Optics
Light is incident at an angle i on a glass slab. The reflected ray is completely polarised. The angle of refraction is
Options
- A90^ -i
- B180^ -i
- C90^ +i
- Di
Correct answer
A. 90^ -i
Step-by-step solution
Brewster discovered that when a beam of unpolarised light is reflected from a transparent medium (refractive index = ) , the reflected light is completely plane polarised at a certain angle of incidence (called the angle of polarisation i ) From figure it is clear that i+r=90^ r=(90-i)