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Polarized light#4: How LCDs work
While you have your polarizing sunglasses to hand, try this neat experiment to help understand how LCDs work. Slowly rotate your sunglasses (they MUST be polarizing ones) and watch what happens to the image you can see. Hold your glasses at a certain angle and the image will be brightest. Turn them through 90 degrees, and this is what happens. Cool, eh?
More in our article about how LCDs work.
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Polarized light#4: How LCDs work
While you have your polarizing sunglasses to hand, try this neat experiment to help understand how LCDs work. Slowly rotate your sunglasses (they MUST be polarizing ones) and watch what happens to the image you can see. Hold your glasses at a certain angle and the image will be brightest. Turn them through 90 degrees, and this is what happens. Cool, eh?
More in our article about how LCDs work.
Our images are published under a Creative Commons Licence (see opposite) and are free for noncommercial use. We also license our images for commercial use. Please contact us directly via our website for more details.