You are taking a photograph of a sunlit office building at sunrise, so the plane of incidence is nearly horizontal. In order to minimize the reflections from the building’s windows, you place a polarizing filter on the camera lens. How should you orient the filter? (i) With the polarizing axis vertical; (ii) with the polarizing axis horizontal; (iii) either orientation will minimize the reflections just as well; (iv) neither orientation will have any effect.
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