Huygen’s principle of secondary wavelets may be used to
Find the velocity of light in vacuum
Explain the particle behaviour of light
Find the new position of the wavefront
Explain photoelectric effect
Which one of the following phenomena is not explained by Huygen's construction of wavefront
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
Newton postulated his corpuscular theory on the basis of
In the adjoining diagram, a wavefront $AB$, moving in air is incident on a plane glass surface $XY$. Its position $CD$ after refraction through a glass slab is shown also along with the normals drawn at $A$ and $D$. The refractive index of glass with respect to air ($\mu = 1$) will be equal to
The figure shows a surface $XY$ separating two transparent media, medium - $1$ and medium- $2$. The lines $ab$ and $cd$ represent wavefronts of a light wave traveling in medium- $1$ and incident on $XY$. The lines $ef$ and $gh$ represent wavefronts of the light wave in medium- $2$ after refraction.
The phases of the light wave at $c, d, e$ and $f$ are $\phi_c,\phi_d, \phi_e$ and $\phi_f$ respectively. It is given that $\phi_c \neq \phi_f.$