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What is meant by plane polarization? How does this phenomenon explain that waves are transverse in nature?

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Answered by vrik
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It is a type of polarization in which the electric vector of waves of light or other electromagnetic radiation is restricted to vibration in a single plane.

A transverse wave is a moving wave that consists of oscillations occurring perpendicular (right angled) to the direction of energy transfer (or the propagation of the wave).

If a transverse wave is moving in the positivex-direction, its oscillations are in up and down directions that lie in the y–z plane.

Light is an example of a transverse wave, while sound is a longitudinal wave. A ripple in a pond and a wave on a string are easily visualized as transverse waves.


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