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At sunset, sunlight is scattered by the atmosphere. A person looking straight up with the sun...

At sunset, sunlight is scattered by the atmosphere. A person looking straight up with the
sun in their back sees this as the blue sky.
a) Explain in 50 words and/or a figure what the orientation of the electric and magnetic
fields are that enter the eye.
b) Explain in 50 words and/or a figure why the scattered light must have only this
polarization.
c) The Poynting vector here is 2 W/m 2 . What is the amplitude of the magnetic field?

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