Figure represents a glass plate placed vertically on a horizontal table with a beam of unpolarised light falling on its surface at the polarising angle of 57° with the normal. The electric vector in the reflected light on screen S will vibrate with respect to the plane of incidence in a
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a
Vertical plane
b
Horizontal plane
c
Plane making an angle of 45° with the vertical
d
Plane making an angle of 57° with the horizontal
answer is A.
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When unpolarised light is made incident at polarising angle, the reflected light is plane polarised in a direction perpendicular to the plane of incidence. Therefore E→ in reflected light will vibrate in vertical plane with respect to plane of incidence.