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An unpolarized light beam travelling in air is incident on a medium of refractive index 1.73 at Brewster's angle. Then
- ABoth reflected and transmitted light are perfectly polarized with angles of reflection and refraction close to and , respectively
- BTransmitted light is completely polarized with angle of refraction close to
- CReflected light is completely polarized and the angle of reflection is close to
- DReflected light is partially polarized and the angle of reflection is close to
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Correct answer: C
Using Brewster law

$$\begin{aligned} \& \begin{aligned} \& \mu=\tan \theta_p \\ \& \Rightarrow 1.73=\tan \theta_p \\ \& \Rightarrow \sqrt{3}=\tan \theta_p \\ \& \Rightarrow \theta_p=60^{\circ} \end{aligned}\\ \& \text { At this polarising angle, reflected light is perfectly polarized and transmitted light is partially polarised. } \end{aligned}$$
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