Huygens Wave Principle

Question 1

State the Huygens wave principle

Answer 1

It states that each point on a wavefront acts like a point source of light from which secondary wavelets emanate in all possible directions with the same speed and tangent drawn to all the points gives another wavefront’s position

Question 2

What is Huygens wave principle used to verify

Answer 2

1]Laws of Reflection

2]”mLaws of Refraction

Question 3

Using Huygens eyepiece measurements can be taken but they aren’t correct

Answer 3

Because the magnification of cross wire scale and final image aren’t proportional as the image is magnified using 2 lenses but the cross wire scale is magnified by one lens only