Diffraction

Introduce Huygens" construction for the propagation of waves.Use Huygens" construction to show that a wave will spread out if passed through a small opening.Show how the single slit diffraction pattern is obtained by adding wavelets.Use a simple method to derive the formula bsinθ=λ for the angular position of the first minima.

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