Brewster's law: polarising angle, refractive index, speed or wavelength in the medium
This type of question, asked 5 times: 12 May 2024 S1, 23 Apr 2025 S1, 26 Apr 2025 S2, 11 Apr 2026 S1, 19 Apr 2026 S2. All 5 questions below, oldest first.
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Question 1
12 May 2024 S1
45A beam of light is incident on a glass plate at an angle of . The reflected ray is polarized. If angle of incidence is then angle of refraction isTap an option to check your answer.
Question 2
23 Apr 2025 S1
23Let the speed of light and the polarizing angle for a given medium be ' V ' and ' ' respectively. The relation between them is ( speed of light in vacuum)Tap an option to check your answer.
Question 3
26 Apr 2025 S2
34The polarizing angle of transparent medium is ' '. Let the speed of light in the medium be ' '. Then the relation between ' ' and ' ' is [ velocity of light in air]Tap an option to check your answer.
Question 4
11 Apr 2026 S1
140A ray of light is incident of the surface of a glass plate at an angle of incidence equal to Brewster's angle . If denotes the refractive index of glass w.r.t. air, then what will be the angle between reflected and refracted rays?Tap an option to check your answer.
Question 5
19 Apr 2026 S2
141A ray of light is incident at polarising angle on air-glass interface. If and are the wavelengths of light in air and glass respectively thenTap an option to check your answer.