You are drinking from a standard (10 oz) coffee cup when a fly starts buzzing around your hands. after finishing your beverage, you quickly trap the fly inside the cup. you then notice another fly is buzzing nearby and you deftly manage to trap the second fly in the cup without releasing the first fly. if you were able to continue trapping flies until the cup was full, estimate how many flies you could trap in the cup.

Alinearly polarized electromagnetic wave has an average intensity of 196 w/m^2. this wave is directed towards two ideal polarizers (in real polarizers, transmission is also effected by reflection and absorption). polarizer a is oriented with its transmission axis at an angle of θ_1=20.8∘ with the incident electric field. polarizer b has its axis at an angle of θ_2=63.0∘ with the incident electric field. what is the average intensity of the wave after it passes through polarizer a? what is the average intensity of the wave after it passes through polarizer b? suppose that the two polarizers a and b are interchanged. what would the average intensity be after passing through both polarizers?