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Will freely rotatable polarizers align?
Will two freely rotatable linear polarizers (placed in sequence and at some angular offset less than, say, 45 degrees) eventually align if you shine (plenty of) unpolarized light at the first one?
If ...
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Interaction of polarized beam to optical active substance
Kostyas question for angular momentum and half wave plates
Half wave plate and angular momentum
made me think a little bit. It took me some seconds to "swallow" the answer. :=)
Then I started to ...
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Half wave plate and angular momentum
Given:
A half wave plate freely floating in space.
Circularly polarized light, falling perpendicularly to it.
The plate changes polarisation of the beam to the opposite one. Therefore it ...
