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Two sheets of ideal polarizing material are placed with their transmission axes at 80.0 to each other. A third polarizing sheet is placed between them with its transmission axis at 40.0° to the axes of the other two.
A) If unpolarized light of intensity I0 is incident on the system, what is the intensity of the transmitted light?
B) What is the fraction of the incident light intensity that is transmitted, when the middle sheet is removed?
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