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What is the shape of the wavefront in each of the following cases: (a) Light diverging from a point source. (b) Light emerging out of a convex lens when a point source is placed at its focus. (c) The portion of the wavefront of light from a distant star intercepted by the Earth. |
Answer» <html><body><p></p>Solution :Wavefronts emitted from distant star and then <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/propagating-2957671" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PROPAGATING">PROPAGATING</a> in three dimensional <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/homogeneous-1028736" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about HOMOGENEOUS">HOMOGENEOUS</a> and isotropic medium are found to be plane locally at very large distance from that star (i.e, on the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/earth-13129" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about EARTH">EARTH</a>). <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/hence-484344" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about HENCE">HENCE</a> small portion of such wavefronts <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/observed-582965" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about OBSERVED">OBSERVED</a> from Earth will be "Plane Wavefronts".</body></html> | |