The past week or so the beautiful island of `Oahu has been covered by dark clouds and continuous rainfall. I was on my way home last night after dropping off a friend and I began to have a really hard time seeing where I was going due to the glare of the on coming car lights reflecting off of the water on the road and off of the front of my truck. While I was driving I began to think of what we learned in physics about how the light reflects off of the water with an intial angle which is equal to the angle of reflection. I also thought of polarization. As the lights hit of the water on a horizontal plane, the reflection was horizontally polarized. Unfortunately I did not have any sun glasses at the time, which are vertically polarized and would block the light but then again it was night time and it's quite odd if you wear sun glasses when there is no sun.
