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Grade 11Wave Optics

Explain Brewster’s Law

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Brewster’s Law:
The tangent of the angle of polarisation is equal to the refractive index of the reflecting
medium.
μ = Tan i p
At polarising angle the reflected ray and refracted ray are perpendicular to each other.