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Fine we sneak And here's your shmoop du jour brought

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to you by bowling we love falling because we can

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eat a cheeseburger fries and drink a soda while we

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do it and still claim that we played a sport

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all right Local kingpin ex fair just tinted the windows

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of his suv Unfortunately they were done using a horizontal

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axis of polarization Not only is this ineffective in reducing

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glare but it's downright dangerous when x spare where's his

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vertically polarized shades this bowler is as impatient as he

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is bolland so he demands a quick temporary fix from

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one of his unique mates until the windows air redone

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the solution is to wear clip on sunglasses over his

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shades not the dorky clip ons These look good The

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clip ons are rigged to have a polarizing access rotated

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thirty degrees from the horizontal What is the light intensity

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shining upon x fares Eyes take i to be the

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intensity transmitted by the suv windows and hear the vigilante

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Man professional bowlers can be a pretty big time Maybe

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we should be working on the physics of the seven

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ten split Well we know that thanks to the lousy

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tin job the polarization axis for the windows and the

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clip ons is thirty degrees on ly A portion of

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the electric field will pass through those sweet stylish lenses

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into experience Delicate eyes The component of light parallel to

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the polarization axis is what makes it through That would

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be the co sign of thirty degrees Now the sunglasses

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have a polarization of ninety degrees since their vertically polarize

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That means that combined with clip ons of polarization angle

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of the eyewear is sixty degrees and they're transmitted Field

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is the same with the windows and the clip ons

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Well the intensity of the field is proportional to the

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square of the fields Magnitude in this case the resulting

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field after passing through everything is he's Up to now

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we can put the pieces together Intensity is equal teo

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e sub two squared and east up two squared equals

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the starting field squared times the coastline of thirty degrees

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squared times the coastline of sixty degrees squared that mass

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Shows the resulting intensity after it gets polarized pieces is

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three sixteenths of the original intensity So the correct answer

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is a that hopefully that's enough liketo let expert here

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see out of his windows You got an accident Ruin

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his athletic career And again anyone who calls themselves expert

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uh probably could use a jolt Nothing too hard Just

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enough to knock that goofy name out of it The 00:02:34.958 --> [endTime] reich

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