{"id":121323,"date":"2022-05-17T12:52:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T07:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=121323"},"modified":"2022-05-17T12:54:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T07:24:50","slug":"define-wavefront-draw-the-shape-of-refracted-wavefront-when-the-plane-incident-wave-undergoes-refraction-from-optically-denser-medium-to-rarer-medium-hence-prove-snells-law-of-refraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/education\/define-wavefront-draw-the-shape-of-refracted-wavefront-when-the-plane-incident-wave-undergoes-refraction-from-optically-denser-medium-to-rarer-medium-hence-prove-snells-law-of-refraction","title":{"rendered":"Define wavefront. Draw the shape of refracted wavefront when the plane incident wave undergoes refraction from optically denser medium to rarer medium. Hence prove Snell\u2019s law of refraction."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Define wavefront. Draw the shape of refracted wavefront when the plane incident wave undergoes<br \/>\nrefraction from optically denser medium to rarer medium. Hence prove Snell\u2019s law of refraction.<\/h2>\n<h3>ANS 7 A locus of points, which oscillate in phase is called a wavefront.<\/h3>\n<p>OR<\/p>\n<h3>A wavefront is defined as a surface of constant phase.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-121327 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2022\/05\/10-28.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2022\/05\/10-28.png 320w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2022\/05\/10-28-150x118.png 150w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2022\/05\/10-28-300x235.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Diagram<br \/>\nProof n\u0b35 sin i = n\u0b36 sin r (Derivation)<br \/>\nThis is the Snell\u2019s law of refraction.<\/h3>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Define wavefront. Draw the shape of refracted wavefront when the plane incident wave undergoes refraction from optically denser medium to rarer medium. Hence prove Snell\u2019s law of refraction. ANS 7 A locus of points, which oscillate in phase is called a wavefront. OR A wavefront is defined as a surface of constant phase. Diagram Proof [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21830,"featured_media":121296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-121323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121328,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121323\/revisions\/121328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}