Q.

Two polarizers whose transmission axes are perpendicular to each other are placed so that they partially overlap. The polarizers in this arrangement are used to view the calm surface of a lake. To explain the light pattern in the diagram shown below, we need:

1 Both Brewster's law and Malus law  
2 Neither Brewster's law or Malus law  
3 Brewster's law but not Malus law  
4 Malus law but not Brewster's law  

Ans.

(1)

Based on theory