Question

How may atoms be viewed when explaining the frequency of reflected and refracted light?

Options

• As photons crossing a unit area per unit time

• As rays travelling near the edge of the lens

• As spherical wavefronts converging to F

• As oscillators that take up the frequency of an external agency

Answer 1

Atoms may be viewed as oscillators driven by an external agency. They take up the frequency of the incident light, resulting in forced oscillations.