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Faraday effect: a standalone construct

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Optics

rotation of the plane of polarized light as it travels through a medium along the direction of an applied magnetic field.

In optics, Faraday effect refers to rotation of the plane of polarized light as it travels through a medium along the direction of an applied magnetic field. This meaning comes from Faraday (1846) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.[1]

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References

Faraday, M. (1846). Experimental researches in electricity.: Nineteenth series. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1846.0001

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