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No, crossed polarizers do not cause interference patterns directly. They extinguish transmitted light that is vibrating in planes that are perpendicular to the respective axes of polarization. However, when a transparent anisotropic stressed material (like glass or plastic) is inserted between the crossed polarizers, the light through the first polarizer that enters the material rotates and separates into two waves (one fast and one slow) that are out of phase with each other by 90 degrees along the axes of principal stresses in the material due to the phenomenon of birefringence. This phase difference is known as optical retardation. Because some components of the light waves are no longer perpendicular to the polarization axis of the second polarizer when they reach it (analyzer), they are permitted to pass through. However, the two separate light waves eventually recombine and cause interference fringes (colors) to appear, specific to the degree of optical retardation exhibited by the material. This retardation is directly proportional to stress and can be used for qualitative and quantitative evaluation of residual and dynamic stresses.
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Light waves that vibrate in only one plane are called what?
Light waves that vibrate in only one plane are called polarized.
Light that has passed through a polarizing filter is called?
polarized light
For an elliptically polarized wave incident on the interface of a dielectric at the Brewster angle then the reflected wave will be?
linearly polarized
Polarized sunglasses work by?
When light reflects off flat surfaces, such as pavement or water, it becomes polarized. This means that instead of scattering in all directions, it travels horizontally. Humans experience polarized light as glare. Polarized sunglasses block polarized light with vertical filters that prevent horizontal light from passing through. Only light traveling vertically can pass through the vertical filter.
How would you justify that light waves are transverse?
One clear indication is that light can be polarized. By their nature, longitudinal waves can't be polarized.
What to do when voltmeter gives negative reading?
Cross the beams.
Must polarized lens be with some colors on it?
No, polarized lenses are colorless (unless ordered with tinting). However most eyeglass lenses (polarized or not) have an antireflective coating on them, which looks colored due to diffraction effects. This antireflective coating actually is also colorless but is very thin and diffraction causes some colors to interfere constructively (making them visible) and other colors to interfere destructively (making them vanish) giving the appearance of having color.
How do you build a Cross?
Take two beams of wood and nail them together
How did a Greek architect keep a roof up?
With columns and cross-beams.
How do you say cross in German?
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What is coffered slab?
A ceiling in which the beams and cross-beams leave a regular pattern of square or multi-sided sunken panels, or coffers, each of which is often decorated with molded, carved and painted decoration. Colonnade .
What difficulties Gustave Eiffel face?
he didnt know how to create the cross beams
What difficulties did Gustave Eiffel face?
he didnt know how to create the cross beams
What does the french word rayons mean in English?
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What is coffers?
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What is a cross polarizer?
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Can light refract if it hits another strong beam of light?
No!! Light beams of photons do not interfere with one another except in crystals as phonons.
