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You have a series of simple polarisers that you can orient as you choose in succession...

You have a series of simple polarisers that you can orient as you choose in succession along a beam. Can you arrange them so that if the beam were polarized to start with it would be unpolarized when it has passed through your succession of polarisers?

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No, it's not possible as simple polarisers have only one optical axis through which electric field vibrations can emerge out Which will remain only in one possible plane perpendicular to direction of propagation so we can't have unpolarised light.

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