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State Huygen's principle, Using this principle draw a diagram to show how a plane wave front incident at the interface of the two media gets refracted when it propagates from a rarer to a denser medium.Hence verify Snell's law of refraction .

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Each point on the primary wave acts as a source of secondary wavelets. The new wavefront at any instant is the envelope of secondary wavelets at that instant.
Time taken for light to go from Q to Q'
t=QKc+QKν................(i)
In right angled triangle ΔAQK,QAK=i
QK=AKsin i............(ii)
In right angled triangle ΔPQK,QPK=r and QK=KPsin r.................(iii)
Using (i),(ii) and (iii) we get
t=AKsin ic+KPsin rν
t=AKsin ic+(APAK)sin rν(KP=APAK)
t=APsin rν+AK(sin icsin rν)
The incident rays will fall at the same time at corresponding points of the refracted wavefront if it is independent of AK
i.e. sin icsin rν=0
sin isin r=cνn=sin isin r which is the Snell's Law for refraction of light.
(b)(i) The frequency of incident,reflected and refracted light are all same as it only depends on the source of light.
(ii)There is no reduction in energy since frequency remains constant.

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