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Cause of polarisation due to reflection?
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[QUOTE="Wrichik Basu, post: 6078534, member: 623143"] Quoting Resnick and Halliday's Fundamentals of Physics (page 912) on polarization by reflection: It is also known that when light is incident at the interface at a particular angle θ[sub]b[/sub], the Brewster angle, the reflected light is completely plane polarized. Why does light get polarized when it gets reflected? What interaction on the atomic scale results in a polarised reflected light? How can this be interpreted quantum mechanically? I searched on Google, got [URL='https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/233751/149663']this answer[/URL], but it's not satisfactory. Can anyone provide a better answer or source? [/QUOTE]
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