An inventor proposes to equip an office with a polarized source of background music and let those who prefer not to hear it wear polarizing earplugs.His idea is
A)a good one - giving people a choice.
B)too expensive.
C)too much bother.
D)nonsense - you can't polarize a sound wave.

Question

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Sound waves cannot be polarized because they are longitudinal waves, not transverse waves like light. Polarization is a property of transverse waves.

An Inventor Proposes to Equip an Office with a Polarized