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3-polarizer fun

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From: Benjamin Weiner
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:46
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|> Surely you have seen (or done, find some friends with
|>Polaroid sunglasses) the experiment where you have crossed (90 degree)
|>polarizers and then insert one between them at 45 degrees and see it
|>go from black to (dim) light.  Same thing with electrons.
|
|This experiment had a very profound influence on me, ...
| I guess that I am easily amused.

Me too.  I keep several 1-inch squares of Polaroid in my desk at home
and try this out on my non-scientist friends every now and then,
because it's such a cool thing.  It usually gets people very
interested.
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From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
Newsgroups: sci.physics
Subject: 3-polarizer fun
Message-ID: <Sep.28.19.46.10.1992.13920@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
Date: 28 Sep 92 23:46:11 GMT
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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