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Classical Fun with Polarisation

Look what Dad brought back from his trip to Germany!
Apollo Optik. An expensive, and an unknown brand to me. But to my delight, I discovered that they were polarized!!

For the uninitiated, light is a self-propagating electromagnetic field disturbance. I’m tempted to call it sourceless, but fact is, that all light is generated by charges in [...]