Question

(A) Newton’s corpuscular theory of light could not explain refraction of light.
(B) Huygens wave theory fails to explain the polarization property of light.

A. A is true, B is false
B. A is false, B is true
C. Both A and B are true
D. Both A and B are false

Answer 1

Hint: In corpuscular theory of light, it can be said that it is quite similar to that of the theories of atomism but in atomism, the atoms are considered to be unbreakable.

Complete step-by-step answer:
Isaac Newton concluded that the geometric nature of reflection and light refraction could only be clarified when light was created from objects, called corpuscles, because waves did not seem to be traveling in straight lines. Newton tried to disprove the hypothesis of Christiaan Huygens that light was made of waves. In his 44th trial in a series of experiments on the mechanics of light, he concluded that light is made up of particles and not waves by passing a beam of white light through two prisms placed at such an angle that the light split into a rainbow after passing through the first prism, and was then recomposed by the second prism, back into white light.
Newton's corpuscular principle of light may describe the light refraction, suggesting particles in a denser material attract strongly the particles in light that create a bending on the surface. Huygens ' theory of waves does not clarify the polarization phenomenon of light, since light is longitudinal waves, and may not display polarization according to him.
Hence, option B is the correct option.

Note: Huygens has a very powerful perspective into the essence of wave transmission today considered the 'principle of Huygens.' Once applicable to light wave propagation this definition states: The location on a wave front can be used as a vector of secondary spherical wavelets dispersing in the forward direction at the speed of light. For all these secondary wavelets, the latest wave-front becomes the tangential base.