A beam of light AO is incident on a glass slab 
in a direction as shown in figure. The reflected ray OB is passed through a Nicol prism on viewing through a Nicole prism, we find on rotating the prism that
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In the arrangement shown, the unpolarised light is incident at polarising angle of 90° – 33° = 57°. The reflected light is thus plane polarised light. When plane polarised light is passed through Nicol prism (a polariser or analyser), the intensity gradually reduces to zero and finally increases.
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