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Experiments show that the ground spider Drassodes cupreus uses one of its several pairs of eyes as a polarization detector. In fact, the two eyes in this pair have polarization directions that are at right angles to one another. Suppose linearly polarized light with an intensity of 735 W/m2 shines from the sky onto the spider, and that the intensity transmitted by one of the polarizing eyes is 160 W/m2. For this eye, what is the angle between the polarization direction of the eye and the polarization direction of the incident light?

Part 2

What is the intensity transmitted by the other polarizing eye?

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The solution shows how to calculate the light intensity transmitted through the polarizers by applying Malus's law.

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