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Two sheets of ideal polarizing material are placed with their transmission axes at 60.0 to each other. A third polarizing sheet is placed between them with its transmission axis at 30.0° to the axes of the other two.
What is the fraction of the incident light intensity that is transmitted, when the middle sheet is removed?
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