Light corn syrup is used to rotate the plane of polarized light on the stage of an overhead projector. A polarizing filter allows only those photons with electric fields oscillating in a single plane ...

These drawings, named Fischer projections, were used originally to depict carbohydrate stereochemistry ... the isomer that rotates the plane of polarized light in a clockwise direction) and ...

Optical rotation/optical activity is a phenomenon of rotation of plane-polarized light as it travels through chiral media, where the chiral media may be the chiral molecules or crystals.