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NEET UG 2017 · Physics · Question 37

NEET 2017 Physics, question 37

Question 37 of the NEET 2017 paper (code A) is a Physics question from Wave Optics. Its idea, Polarisation and Malus's Law, was asked 6 times, in 2017, 2018, 2020, 2024 and 2025, across NEET 2017–2026. The CBSE official answer key gives option 3.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q37 · Physics

Two Polaroids P1P_1 and P2P_2 are placed with their axis perpendicular to each other. Unpolarised light I0I_0 is incident on P1P_1. A third polaroid P3P_3 is kept in between P1P_1 and P2P_2 such that its axis makes an angle 45° with that of P1P_1. The intensity of transmitted light through P2P_2 is

  1. 1I02\frac{I_0}{2}
  2. 2I04\frac{I_0}{4}
  3. 3I08\frac{I_0}{8}Official answer
  4. 4I016\frac{I_0}{16}

Official answer: option 3 · CBSE official answer key

Same idea

Polarisation and Malus's Law, in other papers

NEET asked this idea 6 times, in 2017, 2018, 2020, 2024 and 2025. The other 5 questions below.

  • 2025 Q27An unpolarized light beam travelling in air is incident on a medium of refractive index 1.73 at Brewster's angle. Then-One-line MCQ · Easy
  • 2025 Q43The intensity of transmitted light when a polaroid sheet, placed between two crossed polaroids at 22.5° from the polarization axis of one…Numerical · Medium
  • 2024 Q2An unpolarised light beam strikes a glass surface at Brewster's angle. ThenOne-line MCQ · Easy
  • 2020 Q138The Brewsters angle ibi_b for an interface should be :One-line MCQ · Medium
  • 2018 Q8Unpolarised light is incident from air on a plane surface of a material of refractive index 'μ\mu'. At a particular angle of incidence…One-line MCQ · Medium

Polarisation and Malus's Law: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Wave Optics in ten years of NEET

15 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 8 of 10 papers, about 1.5 a paper. Single Slit Diffraction alone had 8.

Wave Optics: questions per paper

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