Question
Assertion

The light travelling from air to glass can suffer total internal reflection.

Reason

Air is rarer than glass.

A

Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion

B

Both Assertion and Reason are correct but Reason is not the correct explanation for Assertion

C

Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect

D

Assertion is incorrect but Reason is correct

Medium
Solution
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Correct option is D)

The light travelling from air to glass cannot suffer total internal reflection because for total internal reflection, the essential condition is that light should travel from a denser medium to a rarer medium with incidence angle more than the critical angle.

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