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Predict/Calculate A beam of vertically polarized light encounters two polarizing filters, as shown in Figure 25-45. (a) Rank the three cases A B and C, in order of increasing transmitted intensity Indicate ties where appropriate (b) Calculate the transmitted intensity for each of the cases in Figure 25-45, assuming that the incident intensity is 55.5 W/m2 verify that your numerical results agree with the rankings in part (a).
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