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Brewsters's Angle

This special angle of incidence, designatedoccurs when
. It follows from Snell's Law and the fact thatthat
where shifting the sine by 90 deg makes it a cosine. Dividing both sides by cosand again by n i yields
This equation is known as Brewster's Law , after the man who discovered it empirically., Sir David Brewster, the inventor of the kaleidoscope.

Example:

The image of a child reflectsoff a wet city street. At what angle should the reflection be viewed if it is to be seen in totally polarized, linear light?

In other words:
Determine the polarization angle at a known interface.
Given:
n i = 1.00 and n t = 1.33
Find:


and so= 53.1 deg.

Ch. Elster
Aug 26 14:27:03 EDT 2019
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