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Is Huygens principle actually correct?? Isnt considering every point on a wavefront as a point source wrong?

Satviki Pathak , 9 Years ago
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Vikas TU

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Huygens principle decribes best the structure of waveforms / wavelets .
As each wavelet radiates the spherical structure waves which gets distort after collision with other wavelets. 

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