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Energy flow lines and the spot of Poisson–Arago

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Date
2010
Link to item file
http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00416055/en/
Dewey
Sciences connexes (physique, astrophysique)
Sujet
stochastic processes; physics education; Fresnel diffraction
Journal issue
American Journal of Physics
Volume
78
Number
6
Publication date
2010
Article pages
598-611
Publisher
American Association of Physics Teachers
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.3291215
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/6006
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Author
Gondran, Alexandre
Gondran, Michel
Type
Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Abstract (EN)
We show how energy flow lines answer the question about diffraction phenomena posed in 1818 by the French Academy: “Deduce by mathematical induction the movements of the rays during their crossing near the bodies.” The use of energy flow lines provides a complementary answer to Fresnel’s wave theory of light. A numerical simulation of the energy flow lines shows that they can reach the bright spot of Poisson–Arago in the shadow center of a circular opaque disk. For a monochromatic wave in vacuum, these energy flow lines correspond to the diffracted rays of Newton’s Opticks.

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