Question
When light is refracted into a medium:
  1. Its wavelength and frequency both increase
  2. Its wavelength increases but frequency remains unchanged
  3. Its wavelength decreases but frequency remains unchanged.
  4. Its wavelength and frequency both decrease.

Answer

  1. Its wavelength decreases but frequency remains unchanged.

Explanation:

Frequency of a light wave, as it travels from one medium to another, always remains unchanged, while wavelength decreases.

Decrease in the wavelength of light entering a medium of refractive index $\mu$, is given by,

$\lambda_\text{M}=\frac{\lambda}{\mu},$

Where $\lambda_\text{M}$ = wavelength in medium

$\lambda$ = wavelength in vacuum

$\mu$ = refractive index

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