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A unified theory which completely explains the behavior of radiant energy has not been formulated. The corpuscular theory, which historically is the oldest theory of light, states that light consists of streams of extremely small particles projected in all directions from the source. This theory is still used today to describe the photoelectric effect. For the purpose of describing the photoelastic effect, the electromagnetic theory due to Maxwell is often used [7,38,104,204,315]. This theory states that light propagates as transverse electromagnetic waves. The disturbance producing light may be expressed as a light vector which is normal to the direction of propagation.
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Aben, H., Guillemet, C. (1993). Basic Photoelasticity. In: Photoelasticity of Glass. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50071-8_3
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