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I’m working on a physics discussion question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.
Watch the videos below and research on your own explain the following questions below: 1) Who as Christian Huygens?2) Why was his invention of the Pendulum Clock considered so important scientifically?3) Compare and contract Huygens’s theory of light to that of Newton his contemporary.4) Discuss in your own words how Hyugens would explain how a drop of water falling a flat water surface would create circular waves5) Discuss in your own works how Hyugens would explain how a wave can bend or diffract around an obstacle. Hyugens Principle 1Water Waves and Diffraction