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Which of the following phenomena support the idea that light is a wave?

A. Light diffracts when it passes through openings and around obstacles.
B. All of these
C. Light bends when it passes into a new medium
D. Light exhibits interference patterns.

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Wave theory of light explains the phenomena of interference, diffraction, scattering, dispersion, polarisation etc. Complete solution: Around 1700, it was concluded by Newton that light was a group of particles. It was called corpuscular theory.

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