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Huygens' Principle geometric derivation and elimination of the wake and backward wave
Huygens' Principle (1678) implies that every point on a wave front serves as a source of secondary wavelets, and the new wave front is the tangential surface to all the secondary wavelets. But two problems arise: portions of wavelets that exist outside of the new wave front combine to form a wa...
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description | Huygens' Principle (1678) implies that every point on a wave front serves as a source of secondary wavelets, and the new wave front is the tangential surface to all the secondary wavelets. But two problems arise: portions of wavelets that exist outside of the new wave front combine to form a wake. Also there are two tangential surfaces so wave fronts are propagated in both the forward and backward directions. These problems have not previously been resolved by using a geometrical theory with impulsive wavelets that are in harmony with Huygens' geometrical description. Doing so would provide deeper understanding of and greater intuition into wave propagation, in addition to providing a new model for wave propagation analysis. The interpretation, developed here, of Huygens' geometrical construction shows Huygens' Principle to be correct: as for the wake, the Huygens' wavelets disappear when combined except where they contact their common tangent surfaces, the new propagating wave fronts. As for the backward wave, a source propagates both a forward wave and a backward wave when it is stationary, but it propagates only the forward wave front when it is advancing with a speed equal to the propagation speed of the wave fronts. |
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spelling | pubmed-85111212021-10-14 Huygens' Principle geometric derivation and elimination of the wake and backward wave Anderson, Forrest L. Sci Rep Article Huygens' Principle (1678) implies that every point on a wave front serves as a source of secondary wavelets, and the new wave front is the tangential surface to all the secondary wavelets. But two problems arise: portions of wavelets that exist outside of the new wave front combine to form a wake. Also there are two tangential surfaces so wave fronts are propagated in both the forward and backward directions. These problems have not previously been resolved by using a geometrical theory with impulsive wavelets that are in harmony with Huygens' geometrical description. Doing so would provide deeper understanding of and greater intuition into wave propagation, in addition to providing a new model for wave propagation analysis. The interpretation, developed here, of Huygens' geometrical construction shows Huygens' Principle to be correct: as for the wake, the Huygens' wavelets disappear when combined except where they contact their common tangent surfaces, the new propagating wave fronts. As for the backward wave, a source propagates both a forward wave and a backward wave when it is stationary, but it propagates only the forward wave front when it is advancing with a speed equal to the propagation speed of the wave fronts. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8511121/ /pubmed/34642401 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99049-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Anderson, Forrest L. Huygens' Principle geometric derivation and elimination of the wake and backward wave |
title | Huygens' Principle geometric derivation and elimination of the wake and backward wave |
title_full | Huygens' Principle geometric derivation and elimination of the wake and backward wave |
title_fullStr | Huygens' Principle geometric derivation and elimination of the wake and backward wave |
title_full_unstemmed | Huygens' Principle geometric derivation and elimination of the wake and backward wave |
title_short | Huygens' Principle geometric derivation and elimination of the wake and backward wave |
title_sort | huygens' principle geometric derivation and elimination of the wake and backward wave |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8511121/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34642401 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99049-7 |
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