Huygens' Principle

Sunday, 7 October 2018

8:57 PM

Light is a form of a wave motion, rather than a stream of particles.

Geometric method to determine the position of a new wave at a point based on the knowledge of the wave front that preceded it.

After some time has passed, the new position of the wave front is the surface tangent to the secondary waves from point sources of the first wave

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