Answer to Question #106913 in Optics for Vaishali

Question

We observe polarisation of light wave rather than sound wave explain it's physical implication

Answer 1

Polarisation is the phenomenon of the transverse, and light is a kind of transverse wave so polarisation is happen in light but not happen in sound wave because it is a kind of longitudinal wave, in the longitudinal wave it does not happen sound wave.

In the sound wave the vibration of the particle is in the direction of propagation of the wave,so they pass the polariser without any change and doesn't experience any polarization .