Unformatted text preview: Hint: Collimate unpolarized light from an incandescent lamp with a converging lens and illuminate the block of glass. Measure the degree of polarization of reflected light as a function of incident angle. Find the angle that maximizes the polarization. Compare your curve to the theory prediction. 5. Multiple scattering of light can affect the polarization state. Why? Measure the polarization of initially polarized light after passing through a piece of waxed paper. 6. An optically active medium has a different index of refraction for right- and left-circularly polarized light, which has the effect of rotating linearly polarized light. Sugar molecules are chiral - they have a lefthanded twist, so a sugar solution is optically active. Measure the effect of transmitting polarized light through a cell containing corn syrup....
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- Spring '11
- ENO
- Physics, Light, Polarization
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