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Initial setup
The light is unpolarised and first passes through a polarizer.
For unpolarised light passing through a polarizer, the transmitted intensity becomes where is the incident intensity.
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Intensity through analyzer
Let the angle between the transmission axes of the polarizer and analyzer initially be .
By Malus' law, intensity after the analyzer is
We are given that initially,
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Analyzer is rotated by
Rotating the analyzer by changes the angle between the axes from to .
New intensity becomes
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Interpreting the usual polarization experiment condition
In a standard polarization experiment, when the analyzer reading is quoted without any relative angle specified, it is generally taken that the polarizer and analyzer are initially parallel.
So initially,
Hence,
Therefore,
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After rotation
Now the analyzer is rotated by :
Since so
Therefore,
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Final answer
The intensity of emerging light is
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