Asked by wholemelt

wave hits a wall as shown.

A brick wall with a green arrow pointing to the wall from below and right at a shallow angle. Another green arrow starts where the first arrow touched the wall and goes up and left at the same shallow angle.

As the wave interacts with a wall, which kind of wave interaction is shown?

absorption
diffraction
refraction
reflection

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Reflection.

The incoming arrow bounces off the wall at the same angle on the other side — illustrating the law of reflection (angle of incidence = angle of reflection).