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In your own words: (i) Use the Huygens principle to explain how plane parallel wavefronts are diffracted...

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In your own words:

  1. (i) Use the Huygens principle to explain how plane parallelwavefronts are diffracted at a single aperture.

  2. (ii) Use the principle of superposition to explain how coherentlight emerging from two narrow slits can interfere to produce apattern on a distant screen.

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i Huygens principle states thatevery point on a wavefront plane or spherical or others may beconsidered a source of secondary spherical wavelets which spreadout in the forward direction at the speed of light The new shapeof wavefront is the tangential surface to all of these secondarywavelets after certain time intervalIn the above figure for a    See Answer
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