Practice question

**Two polaroids** with pass-axes perpendicular intensity zero because second blocks component, with 45° intensity I₀/4 if initial after first I₀, if initial unpolarized I₀, after first I₀/2 then after second at 45° I₀/4. Three polaroids first and third crossed 90°, middle at 45° maximum transmission because middle rotates polarization, I after first I₀/2, after middle at 45° I₀/4, after third at 45° to middle I₀/4×cos²45°= I₀/8, non-zero, maximum when middle 45°. After the first polaroid, I = (I₀/2) . After the second at 45° , I = (I₀/2) cos² 45° = (I₀/4) . Third at 90° - 45° = 45° to second, I = (I₀/4)