I'm very interested in how light behaves, and I have a few questions about it.
1.) What is the difference between a particle scattering light and a particle reflecting light diffusely?
2.) When light is polarized by being reflected, why exactly is it that it is only polarized at/near the Brewster angle? How does this filter out all the other components of light?
3.) In diagrams for polarization by reflection that I've seen, it showed only teh electric component of light being reflected when it was polarized, is this what really happens? How can it still be light if it's just an electric field?
4.) When light passes through a polarizer like sunglasses, what happens to all the light that doesn't get through? Is it absorbed, reflected, and if absorbed, then why don't sunglasses seem to get really hot from absorbing all that light?
1.) What is the difference between a particle scattering light and a particle reflecting light diffusely?
2.) When light is polarized by being reflected, why exactly is it that it is only polarized at/near the Brewster angle? How does this filter out all the other components of light?
3.) In diagrams for polarization by reflection that I've seen, it showed only teh electric component of light being reflected when it was polarized, is this what really happens? How can it still be light if it's just an electric field?
4.) When light passes through a polarizer like sunglasses, what happens to all the light that doesn't get through? Is it absorbed, reflected, and if absorbed, then why don't sunglasses seem to get really hot from absorbing all that light?