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Malus's law
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English
Etymology
Named after Étienne-Louis Malus.
Proper noun
A rule stating that, when a perfect polarizer is placed in a polarized beam of light, the irradiance I of the light that passes through is given by where I0 is the initial intensity and θi is the angle between the light's initial polarization direction and the axis of the polarizer.
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