DATA A beam of light traveling horizontally is made of an unpolarized component with intensity IO and a polarized component with intensity Ip. The plane of polarization of the polarized component is oriented at an angle θ with respect to the vertical. Figure P33.59 is a graph of the total intensity Itotal after the light passes through a polarizer versus the angle α that the polarizer’s axis makes with respect to the vertical. (a) What is the orientation of the polarized component? (That is, what is θ?) (b) What are the values of I0 and Ip?
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