Asked by kelvin calin

When a DVD is played, a laser light hits the surface of the disk and then returns to the detector.

An illustration of DVD with an arrow pointing toward a spot on the disk labeled detector.
Which wave phenomenon allows the DVD player to work?

absorption
interference
reflection
refraction

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Reflection.

The laser beam is reflected off the disk surface back into a photodetector; differences in the reflected light (from pits and lands) are then read as data.