top | item 30218758 (no title) bujak300 | 4 years ago What specific glasses are these? I'd guess that the direction of the polarisation of the glasses makes a big difference discuss order hn newest wtallis|4 years ago I think polarized sunglasses are always vertically polarized, to block glare off horizontal surfaces. robocat|4 years ago Correct. This page explained it nicely: https://nigerianscholars.com/tutorials/wave-optics/polarizat..."Vertically polarized light is preferentially refracted at the surface, so that the reflected light is left more horizontally polarized" and you use vertically polarised sunglasses to filter out the reflected horizontally polarised light.
wtallis|4 years ago I think polarized sunglasses are always vertically polarized, to block glare off horizontal surfaces. robocat|4 years ago Correct. This page explained it nicely: https://nigerianscholars.com/tutorials/wave-optics/polarizat..."Vertically polarized light is preferentially refracted at the surface, so that the reflected light is left more horizontally polarized" and you use vertically polarised sunglasses to filter out the reflected horizontally polarised light.
robocat|4 years ago Correct. This page explained it nicely: https://nigerianscholars.com/tutorials/wave-optics/polarizat..."Vertically polarized light is preferentially refracted at the surface, so that the reflected light is left more horizontally polarized" and you use vertically polarised sunglasses to filter out the reflected horizontally polarised light.
wtallis|4 years ago
robocat|4 years ago
"Vertically polarized light is preferentially refracted at the surface, so that the reflected light is left more horizontally polarized" and you use vertically polarised sunglasses to filter out the reflected horizontally polarised light.