Formulate the Huygens-Fresnel principle. What statement did Fresnel add to Huygens’ principle?
October 25, 2020 | Education
| Each point that the primary wave reaches becomes a source of the secondary wave, and all such secondary sources are coherent. Oscillations at an arbitrary point are the result of the interference of secondary waves. Fresnel supplemented Huygens’ principle with the idea of the coherence of secondary waves.
