Scattering Polarization -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Scattering Polarization

The selective scattering of light out of the line of sight causes light in the forward direction to be unpolarized, but light in the off-axis direction to be slightly polarized.

Polarization, Scattering


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