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» Huygens, the Dutch physicist and astronomer of the seventeenth
century, gave a beautiful geometrical description of wave
propagation. A stick placed in water and oscillated up and
down becomes a source of waves. Since the surface of water
is two dimensional, the resulting wavefronts would be circles
instead of spheres. At each point on such a circle, the water
level moves up and down. Huygens' idea is that we can think
of every such oscillating point on a wavefront as a new source
of waves. According to Huygens' principle, what we observe
is the result of adding up the waves from all these different
sources. These are called secondary waves or wavelets.
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» Huygens, the Dutch physicist and astronomer of the seventeenth
century, gave a beautiful geometrical description of wave
propagation. A stick placed in water and oscillated up and
down becomes a source of waves. Since the surface of water
is two dimensional, the resulting wavefronts would be circles
instead of spheres. At each point on such a circle, the water
level moves up and down. Huygens' idea is that we can think
of every such oscillating point on a wavefront as a new source
of waves. According to Huygens' principle, what we observe
is the result of adding up the waves from all these different
sources. These are called secondary waves or wavelets.
✴Brainly Benefactor✴
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