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Plane polarized light is passed through a second polarizer whose polarizing direction is, say, at $80^o$ to the polarizing direction of the first polarizer. How does one experimentally measure the frequency of light before and after the second polarizer?

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Usually one measures wavelength. You can measure the wavelength with a diffraction grating.

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