Home
Class 12
PHYSICS
Light appears to travel in straight line...

Light appears to travel in straight lines since

A

it is not absorbed by the atmosphere

B

it is reflected by the atmosphere

C

its wavelength is very small

D

its velocity is very large

Text Solution

Verified by Experts

The correct Answer is:
C
Promotional Banner

Topper's Solved these Questions

  • WAVE MOTION

    NIKITA PUBLICATION|Exercise Multiple Choice Questions|364 Videos

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

Light after being a wave motion, appears to travel in straight line because

Light travels in a straight line because

Describe an activity to show that cathode rays travel in straight lines .

A plane wavefront travelling in a straight line in vacuum encounters a medium ofrefractive index m. At P, the shape of the wavefront is

Light travels in a straight line path while passing through different media.

NIKITA PUBLICATION-WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT -Multiple Choice Questions
  1. The correct curve between refractive index mu and wavelength lambda wi...

    Text Solution

    |

  2. When light suffers reflection at the interface between water and glass...

    Text Solution

    |

  3. Light appears to travel in straight lines since

    Text Solution

    |

  4. When light travels from an optically rarer medium to an optically dens...

    Text Solution

    |

  5. A ray of light of wavelength lambda is incident on mirror at an angle ...

    Text Solution

    |

  6. If a source of light is moving away from a stationary observer, then t...

    Text Solution

    |

  7. The first successful astronomical determination of speed of light was ...

    Text Solution

    |

  8. The first laboratory determination of the speed of light was made by

    Text Solution

    |

  9. Velocity of electromagnetic waves in a medium depends upon

    Text Solution

    |

  10. A ray is incident at an angle 38^(@) an a mirror. The angle between no...

    Text Solution

    |

  11. Waves that cannot be polarised are

    Text Solution

    |

  12. Ordinary light is

    Text Solution

    |

  13. An unpolarised beam of transverse waves is one whose vibrations

    Text Solution

    |

  14. The transverse nature of light is shown by

    Text Solution

    |

  15. The polarisation of an electromagnetic wave is determined by

    Text Solution

    |

  16. In plane polarised light, plane containing electric vector is called p...

    Text Solution

    |

  17. Through which character we can distiguish the light waves from sound w...

    Text Solution

    |

  18. In which of the following phenomena, colours are not produced, if whit...

    Text Solution

    |

  19. Light can not be polarised by

    Text Solution

    |

  20. When the analyser is rotated to complete one rotation, one observes

    Text Solution

    |