A polarizer (with its preferred direction rotated 30° to the vertical) is placed in a beam of unpolarized light of intensity 1. After passing through the polarizer, the beam's intensity is

A)

0.25.
B)

0.50.
C)

0.63.
D)

0.87.
E)

0.75.


B

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