Assignment 2

Due: Friday, 16 April 2004

7. Problem 9.13

8. Problem 9.14

9. Problem 9.17

10. Problem 9.33

11. Problem 9.34

12. Light is incident normally on a crystalline plane-parallel plate of thickness d. Waves polarized along the two axes in the plate travel at velocities

v₁ = c/n₁

and

v₂ = c/n₂.

Find the conditions under which incident plane polarized light emerges as circularly polarized light.