Need someone to do this experiment

SouthArk370Z · 08-18-2013, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by RiCharlie

I seem to be having difficulty expressing myself ...let me try this way..you have a light source,.,A... and then three pieces of polarized glass or plastic put two between your eye and the light source and rotate them in such a way as to stop all the light from coming through,,. as you just indicated ...,.then put the third piece between your eye and the two other polarizers..not changing them .. and see it you can rotate the third in such a way as to once again see the light,..

Whew!!

The light is blocked by the second of the first two filters. There is no light (to speak of) to even go through the third filter. So, no, it won't work.

Polarizing filters don't actively polarize light - they block those rays that aren't oriented properly and allow the correctly oriented rays to pass through.

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