Engineering
Physics
Plane Surface Refraction
Question

On a hot summer night, the refractive index of air is smallest near the ground and increases with height from the ground. When a light beam is directed horizontally, the Huygens' principle leads us to conclude that as it travels, the light beam :

goes horizontally without any deflection

bends downwards

becomes narrower

bends upwards

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Solution

According to Huygens’ principle, each point on wavefront behaves as a point source of light.