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A Review on Basics of Physical and Geometric Optics

Shrawani Verma

Abstract


Light proliferates as motions in an electromagnetic field, which extend from a point light source as equally divided and concentric wavefronts. The energy conveyed in the motions is measured in quantum parcels known as photons.

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