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A beam of light is reflected off the surface of some unknown liquid, and the light is

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A beam of light is reflected off the surface of some unknown liquid, and the light is examined with a linear sheet polarizer. It is found that when the central axis of the polarizer (that is, the perpendicular to the plane of the sheet) is tilted down from the vertical at an angle of 54.30°, the reflected light is completely passed, provided the transmission axis is parallel to the plane of the interface. From this information, compute the index of refraction of the liquid.

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