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Figure represents a glass plate placed vertically on a horizontal table with a beam of unpolarised light falling on its surface at the polarising angle of 57o with the normal. The electric vector in the reflected light on screen S will vibrate with respect to the plane of incidence in a  

Option: 1

Vertical plane


Option: 2

Horizontal plane                 


Option: 3

Plane making an angle of 45o with the vertical

 


Option: 4

Plane making an angle of 57o with the horizontal


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Whenever unpolarised light is made incident at polarising angle then the reflected light is plane polarised in a direction perpendicular to the plane of incidence. Therefore \vec{E} in reflected light will vibrate in vertical plane with respect to plane of incidence.

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