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Glencoe Physics: Principles and Problems, Student Edition

1st Edition

ISBN:9780078807213

Author:Paul W. Zitzewitz

Publisher:Paul W. Zitzewitz

Chapter19: Interference And Diffraction

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 53A

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Would the viewer perceive depth if the images being pro jected in Figure 1 were identical?

Figure 1 A 3-D show using Polaroids. The left eye sees only polarized light from the left projector, the right eye sees only polarized light from the right projector, and both views merge in the brain to produce depth.

Metallic
screen
Polaroid
aligned
horizontally
Polaroid
,aligned
vertically
Slide projector

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A polaroid restricts the oscillation of wave in one particular direction only.

Here, since the images are formed from two polaroids (two projectors), hence, they overlap to form a 3-D image.

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