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To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/FloatHeadPhysics . You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. Let's explore the famous polarisation energy paradox which seems to create light energy. Like most paradoxes in physics, this is only apparent. Once we account for the fact that light is a transverse wave and can be polarised, energies will be accounted for. Chapters: 00:00 Polarisation paradox experiment 01:37 Demonstrating transverse and longitudinal waves 03:18 How to polarise transverse waves 05:19 Vector decomposition review 06:57 How waves get polarised 10:06 Brilliant is brilliant (ad) 11:16 Understanding polaroid filters (pass axis) 14:32 Polarisation of electromagnetic waves 16:47 Experiment that proves light is a transverse waves 18:45 Resolving the three polariser paradox 20:58 LCD is polarised 22:24 Light is a transverse wave! This video was sponsored by Brilliant