What is wavefront?
Ritwik Rai , 10 Years ago
Grade 12
Wave Optics> What is wavefront?
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Ravi
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A wavefront can be said to be the layer(technically locus) that contains the particles which are in phase wrt each other. Like a point light source radiating photons in all directions equally(omnidirectional) will have a spherical wavefront. An ideal line source will have a cylindrical wavefront.
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