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Wave Optics Chapter Ten WAVE OPTICS

Ray optics is based on rectilinear propagation of light, and deals with mirrors, lenses, reflection, refraction, etc. Then you come to the chapter on wave optics, and you are told that light travels as a wave, that it can bend around objects, it can diffract and interfere, etc.

  Topics, Waves, Ray optics, Wave optics