Wave Theory of Light

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Wave Theory of Light

  • Newton’s Corpuscular Theory and its Limitations
  • Huygens’s Wave Theory, Its Merits, and Demerits.
  • Terminology
  • Types of Wavefronts

Huygens’s Principle and its Applications

  • Construction of Spherical and Plane Wavefronts
  • Explanation of Reflection of Light
  • Explanation of Refraction of Light

Numerical Problems on the Wave theory of Light – 01 

Numerical Problems on the Wave theory of Light – 02 

Polarisation of Light 

  • Transverse Nature of Light
  • Plane Polarisation of Light
  • Schematic Representation of Light
  • Terminology
  • Partial Polarization
  • Brewster’s Law

Polaroids

  • Double Refraction
  • Nicol’s Prism
  • Polaroids
  • Uses of Polaroids

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