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State Huygens principle. How did Huygens justify the absence of the backwave on a spherical wavefront ?

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Remember: Huygens proposed secondary wavelets, while Fresnel explained the absence of backwave through interference of those wavelets.

Updated On: Jul 2, 2026

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