Color and Polarization

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• What color light has the highest frequency?
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• While wearing polarized sunglasses, it is sometimes impossible to read the LCD display on calculators or electronic wristwatches. The display will be completely black. Why does this happen?
• Why should professional photographers own a polarizing filter?
• Why can't sound waves be polarized?
• Are sunglasses lenses linearly polarized?
• How can I compute the intensity of a polarized wave going through a Polaroid?
• What are effective methods of polarization?
• If a light passes through two Polaroid filters whose polarization axes are parallel to each other. What would be the result?
• What color is the sky?
• Which has the greater energy, yellow light or green light?
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• Which color in the rainbow has the shortest wavelength?
• What color(s) of light does a transparent red object transmit? What color(s) does it absorb? What color(s) does it reflect?
• If yellow light is shone on the red ink dried on the glass plate, what color is transmitted? What color is absorbed?
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• How will you show that the velocity of matter wave is always greater than that of light?
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• What is the relationship between frequency and wavelength in electromagnetic radiation?
• Why do some colors rise farther on the filter paper than others?
• What is polarized light?