BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONS) Study Guide - Final Guide: Christiaan Huygens, Corpuscular Theory Of Light, Double-Slit Experiment
17 Jul 2022
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In 1672, newton"s gave the corpuscular hypothesis of light which expresses that light is comprised of little discrete particles called "corpuscles" (little particles) which travel in an orderly fashion with a limited speed. This hypothesis couldn"t make sense of the interference, diffraction, polarization peculiarities which prompts the wave lead to the wave theory of light. In 1678, christian huygens gave the wave hypothesis of light. Huygens stated that an expanding sphere of light acts as though each point on the wave front were a new source of radiation of a similar frequency and similar phase. Thomas young and augustine jean fresnel disproved newton"s corpuscular theory. In the mid-1860, maxwell spearheaded the electromagnetic hypothesis of radiation and laid out four well known equations hypothetically and determined the speed of the electromagnetic wave. Electromagnetic wave travels through space at a constant speed of 3. 0 108 m/s (186,000 mi/s). Visible light is a little portion of the electromagnetic radiation.
