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Grade 12Wave Optics

HYOGENS PRINCIPLE

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12 Years agoGrade 12
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Light is a wave. Each point on a wave frant acts as a source of a new disturbence and therefore emits its own set of sherical waves which are called secondary wavelets. The secondary wavelets travel in all directions with the velocity of light as long as they move in the same medium