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    How Do You Solve a Polarization Problem with Multiple Half-Wave Plates?

    One problem in my homework assignment that I am having trouble with is: Take two ideal polarizers (the first with its axis vertical and the second, horizontal) and insert between them a stack of 10 half-wave plates, the first with its fast axis rotated pi/20 rad. from the vertical, and each...
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    Help with optics radiation pressure problem

    Knowing that a 10 watt light source is used to illuminate a 1m(squared) area of glass surface with n=1.5 orthogonal to it's surface, how can i find the radiation pressure?
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