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Fermat's Principle and Huygen's Principle

Modern Optics Podcast by Peter Beyersdorf

Feb 1, 200801:15:14Education

We Introduce Huygen's principle and Fermat's principle and use them to derive Snell's law and the law of reflection.

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Fermat's Principle and Huygen's Principle is an episode from Modern Optics Podcast by Peter Beyersdorf. We Introduce Huygen's principle and Fermat's principle and use them to derive Snell's law and the law of reflection. The episode was pub...

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