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What are the salient features of corpuscular theory of light?

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  • According this theory, light is emitted as tiny, massless (negligibly small mass) and perfectly elastic particles called corpuscles.
  • As the corpuscles are very small, the source of light does not suffer appreciable loss of mass even if it emits light for a long time.
  • On account of high speed, they are unaffected by the force of gravity and their path is a straight line in a medium of uniform refractive index.
  • The energy of light is the kinetic energy of these corpuscles. When these corpuscles impinge on the retina of the eye, the vision is produced.
  • The different size of the corpuscles is the reason for different colours of light.
  • When the corpuscles approach a surface between two media, they are either attracted or repelled.
  • The reflection of light is due to the repulsion of the corpuscles by the medium and refraction of light is due to the attraction of the corpuscles by the medium.
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