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Assertion: A spherical wavefront is produced by a point source of light.

Reason: It is because, the locus of all points, which are equidistant from the point source, is a sphere.

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Important Questions on Wave Optics

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By Huygens wave theory of light, we cannot explain the phenomenon of
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The shape of wave front at a very large distance from source is ________.
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Except for polished surfaces, tan-1(μ) in Brewster's law depends upon which of the following?

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Unpolarized light is incident from air on a surface of material of refractive index 3 at Brewster's angle. The angle of refraction is:

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Plane polarized light is passed through a polaroid. On viewing through the polaroid, we find that when the polaroid is given one complete rotation about the direction of the light, one of the following is observed,
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A ray of light is incident on the surface of a glass plate at an angle of incidence equal to Brewster's angle ϕ. If μ represents the refractive index of glass with respect to air, then the angle between reflected and refracted rays is
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At what angle of incidence will the light reflect from water μ=1.3 be completely polarised?
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A polarizer is used to