Timeline for Nature of Huygens' principle
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| Oct 15, 2022 at 9:27 | comment | added | FlatterMann | No. One can not calculate a light field correctly with Huygens. On can make qualitative arguments with it, so sometimes it is "good enough". | |
| Jan 20, 2020 at 23:46 | answer | added | Gavin R. Putland | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 11, 2018 at 8:41 | comment | added | Farcher | You might find it informative to read two Wikipedia articles en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens%E2%80%93Fresnel_principle and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s_diffraction_formula in which it is explained that mathematical solutions to the wave equation with appropriate approximations enables one to predict the paths of waves in a medium. | |
| Sep 4, 2018 at 7:47 | comment | added | safesphere | A physical phenomenon may have different mathematical interpretations. If they produce the same correct result, then they are all "true", even if they are very different from each other. The The Huygens-Fresnel principle does produce a correct result for light. It means, if each point behaved like a light source, we still would see exactly the same. So, does each point act as a light source? According to Huygens, yes; according to Maxwell, no. It doesn't matter, the result is the same anyway. | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 20:24 | comment | added | user45664 | see researchgate.net/publication/… | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 18:16 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 3, 2018 at 17:47 | history | edited | Aakash Ghosh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 3, 2018 at 17:13 | answer | added | S. McGrew | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 17:02 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | What do you mean by "true"? | |
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| Sep 3, 2018 at 16:58 | answer | added | PhysicsDave | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Sep 3, 2018 at 16:36 | history | asked | Aakash Ghosh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |