Which of the following properties of corpuscles are not correct according to Newton’s corpuscular theory?

Perfectly elastic

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Flexible

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Weightless

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Rigid

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Solution

The correct option is B Flexible
According to Newton’s corpuscular theory, light is a stream of a large number of particles called corpuscles. These corpuscles are perfectly elastic, rigid in shape and have zero mass. So the corpuscles cannot be flexible.

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