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From Huygens' Principle to the Sommerfeld Diffraction Formula

Wenliang Wu

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Since 1678 Huygens proposed Huygens' Principle,Fresnel,Kirchhoff,Sommerfeld and so on had improved this principle,which reflects the scientific research of the development process form the qualitative,semi-quantitative precision to the quantitative phase.In order to accurately understand the Huygens-Fresnel's principle,and also to grasp the objective laws of scientific development,it is necessary for further knowing the history of development of the Huygens' principle.

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Key concepts: Huygens–Fresnel principle, Kirchhoff's diffraction formula, GRASP, Fresnel diffraction, Physics, Calculus (dental), Mathematics, Diffraction