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Huygen's wavelets considers every point on a wavefront as a secondary wave emitting source which therefore creates a new wavefront which has propagated away from source.

 

However, there is something wrong, if every point on a wavefront is a secondary wave emitting source why does the new wavefront go backwards (towards the initial emitting source)?

 

Does anybody have a explanation?

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