when a light ray travel from a rarer to denser medium ,the light bend toward the normal . How corpuscular theory reveals that speed of light in denser medium is greater than speed of light in rarer medium.
when a light ray travel from a rarer to denser medium ,the light bend toward the normal . How corpuscular theory reveals that speed of light in denser medium is greater than speed of light in rarer medium.
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Sir Isaac Newton came up with the corpuscular theory of light in order to explain the phenomena of reflection and refraction.
He postulated that as a ray of light (which is composed of tiny particles called corpuscles) falls upon a comparatively denser medium, they experience attraction. This attraction encountered by light particles is more than what is experienced in a rarer, due to the availability of more medium particles per volume (denser - tightly packed). So, he imagined that the corpuscles would accelerate in what can be called a gravitational forces exerted by the medium particles. Thus, the speed of light would become more in a denser medium according to Newton's Corpuscular theory.
Hello!
Sir Isaac Newton came up with the corpuscular theory of light in order to explain the phenomena of reflection and refraction.
He postulated that as a ray of light (which is composed of tiny particles called corpuscles) falls upon a comparatively denser medium, they experience attraction. This attraction encountered by light particles is more than what is experienced in a rarer, due to the availability of more medium particles per volume (denser - tightly packed). So, he imagined that the corpuscles would accelerate in what can be called a gravitational forces exerted by the medium particles. Thus, the speed of light would become more in a denser medium according to Newton's Corpuscular theory.
