Advices For Studying Organic Chemistry

oscillating electric field and an oscillating magnetic field.

Figure 5.9 The oscillating electric and magnetic fields of a beam of ordinary light
in one plane. The waves depicted here occur in all possible planes in
ordinary light.

2. Oscillations of the electric field (and the magnetic field) are occurring in all
   possible planes perpendicular to the direction of propagation.

Figure 5.10 Oscillation of the electrical field of ordinary light

occurs in all possible planes perpendicular to the

direction of propagation.

3. Plane-polarized light:
   
   
   1. When ordinary light is passed through a polarizer, the polarizer interacts with
      the electric field so that the electric field of the light emerges from the polarizer
      (and the magnetic field perpendicular to it) is oscillating only in one plane.
   
   
   
   

Figure 5.11 The plane of oscillation of the electrical field of

plane-polarized light. In this example the plane of

polarization is vertical.

4. The lenses of Polaroid sunglasses polarize light.

5.7B THE POLARIMETER