Unpolarized light is passed through polarizer 1 . The light then goes though polarizer 2 with its plane of polarization at 35.8° to that of polarizer 1 . Polarizer 3 is placed after polarizer 2 . Polarizer 3 has its plane of polarization at 58.8° to the plane of polarization of polarizer 2 and at 94.6° to that of polarizer 1 . What fraction of the intensity of the original light gets though
the last polarizer?
a. 0.177
b. 0.463
c. 0.232
d. 0.088
e. 0.021
d
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