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Multiple choice physics wave optics huygens wave theory and wavefront wave propagation (huygens' construction) theories on light wave behaviour

Ray optics is valid when characteristic dimensions are

  1. of the same order as the wavelength of light

  2. much smaller than the wavelength of light

  3. much larger than the wavelength of light

  4. of the order of 1 mm
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Ray optics is valid when characteristics dimensions are larger than the wavelength of the light, so that rectilinear property of light can be used.

Multiple choice physics wave optics huygens wave theory and wavefront wave propagation (huygens' construction) theories on light wave behaviour

Who first proposed that light was wave-like in character ?

  1. Huygens

  2. Newton

  3. Young

  4. Maxwell
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Huygens 

In 1678, Dutch physcist, christian Huygens beived that light was made up of waves vibrating up and down perpendicular to the direction of the light travels, and therefore formulated a way of visualising wave propagation. This became known as Huygens Principe. 

Multiple choice physics wave optics huygens wave theory and wavefront wave propagation (huygens' construction) theories on light wave behaviour

A : The phase difference between any two points on a wave front is zero
R : From the source light, reaches every point on the wave front in the same time.

  1. Both A and R are true, and R is correct explanation of A

  2. Both A and R are true, and R is not correct explanation of A

  3. A is true but R is false

  4. A is false but R is true
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

A wave front is the locus of points having the same phase.
Thus statement A is true because the phase difference is zero as all points have same phase.
Statement R is true because a wavefront is composed of all points where the light reaches from the source in the same time.
As light takes the same time it has the same phase at all points on a wavefront and hence it correctly explains statement A.

Multiple choice physics wave optics huygens wave theory and wavefront wave propagation (huygens' construction) theories on light wave behaviour

1: Primary waves can travel in all directions in an ether
2: Secondary waves can travel only in backward in an ether

  1. 1 is true, 2 is false

  2. Both 1 and 2 are true

  3. 1 is false, 2 is true

  4. Both 1 and 2 are false
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Primary wave can travel in all directions in ether.
Secondary waves can travel in forward direction in ether

Multiple choice physics wave optics huygens wave theory and wavefront wave propagation (huygens' construction) theories on light wave behaviour

The wave theory of light, in its original form, was first postulated by.

  1. Isaac Newton

  2. Christian Huygens

  3. Thomas Young

  4. Augustin Jean Fresnel
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

B

In 1678, Dutch physicist, Christian Huygens,  believed that the light was made up of waves vibrating up and down perpendicular to the direction of the light travels and therefore formulated away of visualising wave propagation. This becomes know as Huygens principle. Huygens theory was the successful theory of light in three dimensions. Huygens suggested that the light wave peaks form from surfaces like the layers of onion. In a vacuum or other uniform mediums the light waves are spherical and these wave surfaces advance or spread out as they travel at the speed if light. This theory explains why light shining through a pinhole or slitwall spread out rather than going in straight lines. 

Multiple choice physics wave optics huygens wave theory and wavefront wave propagation (huygens' construction) theories on light wave behaviour

Which experiment seemed to make it clear that light propogates as a wave?

  1. Milikan's oil drop experiment

  2. The Michelson-Morley experiment

  3. Young's double-slit experiment

  4. Fresnel's lens experiment

  5. Lenz's proof of Lenz's law
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
Young's double slit experiment 
The double slit experiment is a demonstration that light and matter can display characteristics of both classically defined waves and particles. Moreover it displays the fundamentally probabislistic nature of quantum mechanical phenomena
Multiple choice physics wave optics huygens wave theory and wavefront wave propagation (huygens' construction) theories on light wave behaviour

Indentify the correct statement from the following

  1. Wave nature of light was proposed by Huygen.

  2. The direction of light ray and its wave front are opposite.

  3. Huygen's wave theory could not explain phenomenon of reflection.

  4. A monochromatic ray of light after passing through the prism should be made of one colour only.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A,D Correct answer
Explanation

Huygen's wave theory: This wave theory was given by Huygens in 1678. According to this theory, a source of light propagates spherical waves in hypothetical.

In optics a ray is an idealized model of light, obtained by choosing a line that is perpendicular to the wavefronts of the actual light, and that points in the direction of energy flow.
Huygen’s wave theory could easily explain reflection, energy transmission, and refraction, but had difficulty explaining the straight line travel of light.
When a ray of monochromatic light would pass through a prism, you would see it refract but it will not disperse as its a beam of single wavelength. When light enters a medium with a different density it bends (refracts). Because white light contains a collection of component colors with varying wavelengths.

Multiple choice physics wave optics huygens wave theory and wavefront wave propagation (huygens' construction) theories on light wave behaviour

Huygen's concept of secondary wave

  1. allow up to find the focal length of a thick lens

  2. is a geometrical method to find a wavefront

  3. is used to determine the velocity of light

  4. is used to explain polarization
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Huygen proposed a hypothesis for the geometrical construction of the position of a common wavefront at any instant during the propagations of waves in a medium.