Question 4

A source of light is viewed through a polarizer, which is turned on its axis through one revolution while the transmitted intensity is measured. It is concluded that the source has two incoherent components -- one unpolarized, with intensity I/2, the other linearly polarized with equal intensity I/2. The graph of intensity vs. polarizer angle which would support such a conclusion is:

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