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Wave Optics
Chapter Ten
WAVE OPTICS
10 1  INTRODUCTION
In 1637 Descartes gave the corpuscular model of light and derived Snell’s
law It explained the laws of reflection and refraction of light at an interface The corpuscular model predicted that if the ray of light (on refraction)
bends towards the normal then the speed of light would be greater in the
second medium