A plane wavefront travelling in a straight line in vacuum encounters a medium of refractive index $\mu$. At $P,$ the shape of the wavefront is :
On a hot summer night, the refractive index of air is smallest near the ground and increases with height from the ground. When a light beam is directed horizontally, the Huygens' principle leads us to conclude that as it travels, the light beam
According to corpuscular theory of light, the different colours of light are due to
Figure shown plane waves refracted for air to water using Huygen's principle $a, b, c, d, e$ are lengths on the diagram. The refractive index of water wrt air is the ratio.
Huygen's theory of secondary waves can be used of find
The wavefront of a distant source of unknown shape is approximately