No study of light is complete without explaining how what we see compares to what is actually sending us light. It turns out that such an explanation is rather difficult in the context of our wave mo...No study of light is complete without explaining how what we see compares to what is actually sending us light. It turns out that such an explanation is rather difficult in the context of our wave model, so we will employ a trick that allows us to temporarily forget light's wave nature, and do such calculations using pure geometry.
No study of light is complete without explaining how what we see compares to what is actually sending us light. It turns out that such an explanation is rather difficult in the context of our wave mo...No study of light is complete without explaining how what we see compares to what is actually sending us light. It turns out that such an explanation is rather difficult in the context of our wave model, so we will employ a trick that allows us to temporarily forget light's wave nature, and do such calculations using pure geometry.