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polarizing filter Brewster's law Figure 18: Progression of elliptically polarized wave (see text). Figure 5: Malus' experiment. Successive reflections at two unsilvered mirror surfaces, G1 and G2 (see text).
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Brewster's law
Figure 18: Progression of elliptically polarized wave (see text).
Figure 5: Malus' experiment. Successive reflections at two unsilvered mirror surfaces, G1 and G2 (see text).
Understand how the polarization of the light from cosmic background radiation influenced the early development of the universe
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Edwin Herbert Land
American inventor and physicist
Arago, François
François Arago
French physicist
Sir David Brewster
Scottish physicist
James David Forbes
Scottish physicist
Barkla, Charles Glover
Charles Glover Barkla
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Malus, engraving by A. Tardieu after a painting
Étienne-Louis Malus
French physicist