Question

Drawbacks of Huygen's principal of Secondary Wavelets​

Answer 1

According to this principle, reflection of light, refraction, interference and diffraction were successfully interpreted, but still there were some drawbacks in this principle which are as follows

(1) According to this theory, light waves were considered mechanical. Imagine a universal medium ether for

transmission. Was done. Michelson Morley did not consider the presence of the ubiquitous medium such as ethereal on the basis of the findings received from his experiment. .

(ii) According to this principle the nature of light is longitudinal, through which the polarization of light can not be explained.

(iii) According to this principle, light-electrochemical effects can not be explained. .