Q. Select the right option in the following
A) Christian Huygens, a contemporary of Newton established the wave theory of light by assuming that light waves were transverse
B) Maxwell provided the theoretical evidence that light is transverse wave
C) Thomas Young experimentally proved the wave behavior of light and Huygens assumption
D) All the statements given above, correctly answers the question “what is light?”
Explanation
(b) Maxwell first proved it mathematically that light waves are transverse in nature.
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