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Huygens’ principle

  • Huygens' principle
    In Huygens’ principle

    …front and is called the envelope of the wavelets. If a medium is homogeneous and has the same properties throughout (i.e., is isotropic), permitting light or sound to travel with the same speed regardless of its direction of propagation, the three-dimensional envelope of a point source will be spherical; otherwise,…

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