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What is the shape of the wavefront in each of the following cases ? (a) light diverging from point source. (b) light emerging out of a convex lens when a point source is placed at its focus. ( c) the portion of the wavefront of light from a distant star intercepted by earth.

Answer» The wavefront on earth for the sunlight (treated as point source) will be spherical. However, as distance of earth from the sun is huge `( ~~ 10^(11)m)`, portion of the wavefront on earth can be treated as plane wavefront.


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