Use Huygens’ principle to show how a plane wavefront propagates from a denser to rarer medium. Hence verify Snell’s law of refraction.
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Use Huygens’ principle to show how a plane wavefront propagates from a denser to rarer medium. Hence verify Snell’s law of refraction.
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