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प्रश्न
What is the shape of the wavefront on earth for sunlight?
उत्तर
The sun is at very large distance from the earth. Assuming sun is spherical, it can be considered as a point source situated at infinity. We can treat it like a point object as seen from the surface of earth. Because of the large distance, the radius of wavefront can be considered Large (infinity) and hence, wavefront is almost plane.
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