Consider the following statements: 1. Light of longer wavelength are scattered much more than the light of shorter wavelength.
Consider the following statements:
1. Light of longer wavelength are scattered much more than the light of shorter wavelength.
2. The speed of visible light in water is 0.95 times the speed in vacuum.
3. Radio waves are produced by rapidly oscillating electrical currents.
4. To detect the overspeeding vehicles, police use the Doppler effect of reflected short radio waves.
Which of these statements are correct?
(a) 1 and 2 (b) 1 and 3 (c) 2 and 4 (d) 3 and 4
1 Answers
(d) Radio waves are a form of electromagnetic radiation, created whenever a charged object (in normal radio transmission, an electron) accelerates with a frequency that lies in the radio frequency (RF) portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Thus statement 3 is correct. The Doppler's Effect shows a change in a wave's frequency received when it is either reflected from a moving object or generated on a moving object. Police radar speed detectors bounce a radio frequency wave off cars and use their internal electronics to determine the speed at which the object is moving by that frequency change. Therefore, statement 4 is also correct.