When can polarization be observed?

Question

Polarization can be observed.....
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> for all types of waves.
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> for light waves.
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> for short wavelengths.
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> only at night.

Answer 1

Polerization is best viewed nearest to the polar caps.
I prefer the Norther pole it is closer.

Once at or as near as you can get to the polar cap.
Remove you polorized sunglasses.

Take each lense out and look at the blue skie through them.

Twist one slowly until it is 90 degrees off the next. Theses lenses filter out the directional ray's you will see that once you are at 90 no light will filter through.

Answer 2

You can determine polarized light by observing the orientation of the light waves--they should all be in the same direction. For this reason if you had two identical polarized lens and set them perpendicular to each other, no light should pass through at all.

Shorter wavelengths are used in calculators and watches. The polarization is used to blacken the area in the lit LCD, so viewing is possible at night.

Answer 3

Longitudinal waves (sound,mechanical elastic waves ,waves in strings) are symmetrical, hence they cannot be polarized.(polarized means vibrations restricted to one plane only.

Transverse waves (electromagnetic waves i.e. light waves of all wavelengths)are asymmetric ,hence vibrations of light waves can be restricted to one plane only.

when light passes through a tourmaline crystal ( sun goggles,Polaroid) ,light gets polarized

polarized light can be produced at any time day or night

Answer 4

In electrodynamics, polarization (also spelled polarisation) is the property of electromagnetic waves, such as light, that describes the direction of their transverse electric field.
it can be observed for short wavelength