Question

Newton proposed that a source of light emits many minute, elastic, rigid and massless particles. What are they called ?

• A. Photons
• B. Corpuscles
• C. Brownian particles
• D. Positrons

Answer 1

The correct option is B Corpuscles

According to the Newton's corpuscular theory, a source of light emits many minute, elastic, rigid and massless particles are called corpuscles.

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