* Fresnel, Augustin-Jean

Augustin-Jean Fresnel did more definitive studies and calculations of diffraction, made public in 1815 and 1818, and thereby gave great support to the wave theory of light that had been advanced by Christiaan Huygens and reinvigorated by Young, against Newton's particle theory.

The Huygens – Fresnel principle ( named after Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens and French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel ) is a method of analysis applied to problems of wave propagation both in the far-field limit and in near-field diffraction.

* 1827 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist ( b. 1788 )

The invention of the Fresnel lens ( pronounced ) in 1822 by French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel revolutionized lighthouses in the 19th century, focusing 85 % of a lamp's light versus the 20 % focused with the parabolic reflectors of the time.

Newtonian optics was generally accepted until the early 19th century when Thomas Young and Augustin-Jean Fresnel conducted experiments on the interference of light that firmly established light's wave nature.

Around the same time, Newton's contemporaries Robert Hooke and Christian Huygens — and later Augustin-Jean Fresnel — mathematically refined the wave viewpoint, showing that if light traveled at different speeds in different media ( such as water and air ), refraction could be easily explained as the medium-dependent propagation of light waves.

* July 14 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist ( b. 1788 )

In optics and radio communications ( indeed, in any situation involving the radiation of waves, which includes electrodynamics, acoustics, and gravitational radiation ), a Fresnel zone ( ), named for physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, is one of a ( theoretically infinite ) number of concentric ellipsoids which define volumes in the radiation pattern of a ( usually ) circular aperture.

The civil engineer Augustin-Jean Fresnel entered this competition by submitting a new wave theory of light.

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* 1821 — Augustin-Jean Fresnel derives a mathematical demonstration that polarization can be explained only if light is entirely transverse, with no longitudinal vibration whatsoever.

A Fresnel lens ( pronounced or ) is a type of lens originally developed by French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel for lighthouses.

French physicist and engineer Augustin-Jean Fresnel is most often given credit for the development of the multi-part lens for use in lighthouses.

* Augustin-Jean Fresnel, physicist

Since the Earth is in motion, two main possibilities were considered: ( 1 ) The aether is stationary and only partially dragged by Earth ( proposed by Augustin-Jean Fresnel in 1818 ), or ( 2 ) the aether is completely dragged by Earth and thus shares its motion at Earth's surface ( proposed by George Gabriel Stokes in 1844 ).

In the early 19th century, Brougham, a follower of Newton, launched vicious anonymous attacks in the Edinburgh Review against Thomas Young's research that proved light was a wave phenomenon that exhibited interference and diffraction, attacks that slowed acceptance of the truth for a decade until François Arago and Augustin-Jean Fresnel championed Young's work.

Fresnel integrals, S ( x ) and C ( x ), are two transcendental functions named after Augustin-Jean Fresnel that are used in optics.

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Few would dispute the verdict of James D. Forbes, an editor of the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica: " His scientific glory is different in kind from that of Young and Fresnel ; but the discoverer of the law of polarization of biaxial crystals, of optical mineralogy, and of double refraction by compression, will always occupy a foremost rank in the intellectual history of the age.

Diffraction arises because of the way in which waves propagate ; this is described by the Huygens – Fresnel principle and the principle of superposition of waves.

The Huygens – Fresnel principle is one such model ; it states that each point on a wavefront generates a secondary spherical wavelet, and that the disturbance at any subsequent point can be found by summing the contributions of the individual wavelets at that point.

In general, the incident wave is partially refracted and partially reflected ; the details of this behavior are described by the Fresnel equations.

Fresnel zone: D is the distance between the transmitter and the receiver ; r is the radius of the first Fresnel zone ( n = 1 ) at point P. P is d1 away from the transmitter, and d2 away from the receiver.

According to Smithsonian magazine, the first Fresnel lens was used in 1823 in the Cordouan lighthouse at the mouth of the Gironde estuary ; its light could be seen from more than out.

Fresnel lenses are usually made of glass or plastic ; their size varies from large ( old historical lighthouses, meter size ) to medium ( book-reading aids, OHP viewgraph projectors ) to small ( TLR / SLR camera screens, micro-optics ).

Cape Meares Lighthouse ; first-order Fresnel lens

The specific transduction method has no impact on the directivity of the resulting sound field ; the analysis relies only on the aperture function of the source, per the Huygens – Fresnel principle.

In fact, the total of the two reflections is less than that of the " naked " air-glass interface, since for near-normal incidence the reflectivity is proportional to the square of the difference in refractive index ; see Fresnel equations.

See scalar wave approximation Let us substitute this expression in the argument of the exponential within the integral ; the key to the Fresnel approximation is to assume that the third term is very small and can be ignored.

* Fresnel rhomb-another way of producing circularly polarized light ; it does not use a wave plate

* July 14-Augustin-Jean Fresnel ( born 1788 ), physicist.

The fact that other scientists – notably Étienne-Louis Malus and Augustin Fresnel – were pursuing the same investigations contemporaneously in France does not invalidate Brewster's claim to independent discovery, even though in one or two cases the priority must be assigned to others.

* Fresnel Equations – Wolfram

The Huygens – Fresnel principle provides a good basis for understanding and predicting the wave propagation of light.

The arbitrary assumptions made by Fresnel to arrive at the Huygens – Fresnel equation emerge automatically from the mathematics in this derivation.

The various assumptions made by Fresnel emerge automatically in Kirchhoff's diffraction formula, to which the Huygens – Fresnel principle can be considered to be an approximation.

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The Huygens – Fresnel equation is one such model.

Examples of the application of Huygens – Fresnel principle can be found in the sections on diffraction and Fraunhofer diffraction.

File: Christiaan Huygens-painting. jpeg | Christiaan Huygens ( 1629-1695 ): studied the rings of Saturn and discovered its moon Titan, invented the pendulum clock, studied optics and centrifugal force, theorized that light consists of waves ( Huygens – Fresnel principle ) which became instrumental in the understanding of wave-particle duality.

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The resulting Huygens – Fresnel principle was extremely successful at reproducing light's behavior and, subsequently supported by Thomas Young's discovery of double-slit interference, was the beginning of the end for the particle light camp.

* November 1 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lighted for the first time ( its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for 19 miles ).

According to the Huygens – Fresnel principle, each point on the wavefront of a propagating wave can be considered to act as a point source, and the wavefront at any subsequent point can be found by adding together the contributions from each of these individual point sources.

Huygens achieved note for his argument that light consists of waves, now known as the Huygens – Fresnel principle, which two centuries later became instrumental in the understanding of wave-particle duality.

In his 1678 Traité de la Lumiere, Christiaan Huygens showed how Snell's law of sines could be explained by, or derived from, the wave nature of light, using what we have come to call the Huygens – Fresnel principle.