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Brewster's angle
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Brewster's angle [¦brü·stərz ¦aŋ·gəl]
(optics)
The angle of incidence of light reflected from a dielectric surface at which the reflectivity for light whose electrical vector is in the plane of incidence becomes zero; given by Brewster's law. Also known as polarizing angle.


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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Without getting into the technicalities of polarization angles, you can think of entangled photons as something like pairs of spinning coins.
Without getting into the technicalities of polarization angles, you can think of entangled photons as something like pairs of spinning coins.
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