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Question
Show, with the help of a diagram, how unpolarised sunlight gets polarised due to scattering.
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Solution
Unpolarized light scattering from air molecules shakes their electrons perpendicular to the direction of the original ray. The scattered light therefore has a polarisation perpendicular to the original direction and none parallel to the original direction.
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