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An assumption regarding the behavior of light waves, originally proposed by C. Huygens in the seventeenth century to explain the fact that light...



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Huygens' principle. (a) The construction for a spherical wave. (b, c) Amplitude of the secondary wave according to Fresnel and Kirchhoff, respectively.
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