Salvaging Newton’s 313 Year Old Corpuscular Theory of Light.
| dc.contributor.author | Nyambuya, G. G. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dube, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Musosi, G. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-09T13:02:10Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-06-26T13:02:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-04-09T13:02:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-06-26T13:02:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description | Journal article | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | As is well known – Newton’s corpuscular model of light can explain the Law of Reflection and Snell’s Law of Refraction. Sadly and regrettably – its predictions about the speed of light in different mediums runs contrary to experience. Because of this, Newton’s theory of light was abandoned in favour of Huygens’ wave theory. It [Newton’s corpuscular model of light] predicts that the speed of light is larger in higher density mediums. This prediction was shown to be wrong by Foucault’s 1850 landmarking experiment that brought down this theory of Newton. The major assumption of Newton’s corpuscularmodel of light is that the corpuscles of light have an attraction with the particles of the medium. When the converse is assumed, i.e., the corpuscles of light are assumed to not have an attraction-effect, but a repulsion-effect with the particles of the medium, one obtains the correct predictions of the speed of light in denser mediums. This new assumption [of Newton’s corpuscles repelling with the particles of the medium] might explain why light has the maximum speed in any given medium. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Nyambuya, G. G., Dube, A. and Musosi, G. 2017. Salvaging Newton’s 313 Year Old Corpuscular Theory of Light | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://196.220.97.103:4000/handle/123456789/864 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.title | Salvaging Newton’s 313 Year Old Corpuscular Theory of Light. | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |