Unpolarized light is passed through an optical filter that is oriented in the vertical direction.
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In order to solve this problem it is necessary to apply the concepts related to intensity and specifically described in Malus's law.
Malus's law warns that
Where,
Angle between the analyzer axis and the polarization axis
Intensity of the light before passing through the polarizer
The intensity of the beam from the first polarizer is equal to the half of the initial intensity
Replacing with our the numerical values we get
Therefore the intensity of the light that emerges from the filter is
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Explanation:
A charge located at a point will experience a zero electrostatic force if the resultant electric field on it due to any other charge(s) is zero.
is located at the origin. The net force on it will only be zero if the resultant electric field intensity due to
and
at the origin is equal to zero. Therefore we can perform this solution without necessarily needing the value of
.
Let the electric field intensity due to be +
and that due to
be -
since the charge is negative. Hence at the origin;
From equation (1) above, we obtain the following;
From Coulomb's law the following relationship holds;
where is the distance of
from the origin,
is the distance of
from the origin and k is the electrostatic constant.
It therefore means that from equation (2) we can write the following;
k can cancel out from both side of equation (3), so that we finally obtain the following;
Given;
Substituting these values into equation (4); we obtain the following;