Homework Help: physics

Posted by HELP on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 11:14pm.

An analyzer is rotated about an incident ray. The intensity of light is found to increase and decrease, but it does not become zero at any point. The incident light is:
a.partially polarized
b.plane-polarized
c.polarized in two planes
d.unpolarized

physics - drwls, Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 1:29am
They probably expect answer (a), but it could also be (c).

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