Question

Assertion : According to Huygens principle, no backward wave-front is possible.
Reason : Amplitude of secondary wavelet is proportional to (1 + cos θ) where θ is the angle between the ray at the point of consideration and the direction of secondary wavelet.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Both Assertion and Reason are correct but Reason is not a correct explanation of the Assertion.

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Answer 2

Answer: Both Assertion and Reason are correct but Reason is not a correct explanation of the Assertion.

Explanation:

Huygens’ principle, also called Huygens-Fresnel principle, a statement that all points of a wave front of sound in a transmitting medium or of light in a vacuum or transparent medium may be regarded as new sources of wavelets that expand in every direction at a rate depending on their velocities. Proposed by the Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Christiaan Huygens in 1690, it is a powerful method for studying various optical phenomena.

Huygens' principle

Huygens' principle

A surface tangent to the wavelets constitutes the new wave front and is called the envelope of the wavelets. If a medium is homogeneous and has the same properties throughout (i.e., is isotropic), permitting light or sound to travel with the same speed regardless of its direction of propagation, the three-dimensional envelope of a point source will be spherical; otherwise, as is the case of light with many crystals, the envelope will be ellipsoidal in shape (see double refraction). An extended light source will consist of an infinite number of point sources and may be thought of as generating a plane wave front.

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