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AP Physics 2
14.3 Boundary Behavior of Waves and Polarization
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A 3D diagram showing a light beam traveling along the z-axis from left to right toward a circular linear polarizer positioned in the xy-plane. The incoming beam is represented by a central ray arrow along the z-axis, surrounded by arrows representing light vectors. A circular polarizing filter is shown perpendicular to the beam, with a dashed transmission axis line passing through its center. A curved arrow around the perimeter of the filter indicates continuous rotation of the filter about the z-axis. No other labels, lines, text, or axes appear.
Light beam incident on a rotating linear polarizer.
A light beam consisting of a mixture of unpolarized light of intensity \(I_u\) and linearly polarized light of intensity \(I_p\) is incident normally on a linear polarizer. As the polarizer is rotated through \(360^\circ\) about an axis parallel to the beam's direction of propagation, the transmitted intensity varies between a minimum value \(I_{\text{min}}\) and a maximum value \(I_{\text{max}}\). In terms of \(I_u\) and \(I_p\), which of the following expressions represents the ratio \(\dfrac{I_{\text{min}}}{I_{\text{max}}}\)?

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