What is Huygens' principle?
To Explain: The Huygens’s principle.
Explanation of Solution
Introduction:
Any point on a wave front may considered as a source of spherical or circular wavelets.
Each point on an advanced wave front is a new disturbance center from which emanate independent wavelets whose envelope is a part of a new wave front at every successive stage. According to Huygens’s principle, in a vacuum or transparent medium, all points of a wave front of light may be considered as a new source of wavelets that spread in each direction with a rate that depends on their velocities.
Conclusion:
Huygens’s principle states that, in a vacuum or transparent medium, all points of a wave front of light may be considered as a new source of wavelets that spread in each direction with a rate that depends on their velocities.
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