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The 19 pages that link to Huygens–Fresnel principle, each with the reason it gives.

• DiffractionRelated: It provides a construction for predicting how waves spread beyond an opening or obstacle.

• RefractionRelated: It explains bending by tracking how wavelets advance at different speeds across an interface.

• Superposition principleRelated: It uses wave addition to predict propagation, while superposition itself is the broader linear rule.

• Christiaan HuygensBroader topic: It extends Huygens’s account of how light waves propagate.

• ReflectionRelated: It describes reflected wavefronts as the boundary redirects secondary wavelets.

• Fermat's principleCompared with: It describes light through wave propagation rather than selecting a single stationary-time ray.

• WavefrontRelated: It predicts a new wavefront from the current one.

• Augustin-Jean FresnelBroader topic: Fresnel added interference among secondary wavelets to Huygens’s construction.

• Wave theory of lightRelated: It provides a construction for tracing light wavefronts and predicting diffraction.

• Airy diskRelated: Interference among wavelets across the aperture forms the disk and its rings.

• Fraunhofer diffractionRelated: It explains how light from different aperture points combines to form the distant field.

• Fourier opticsNarrower topic: It supplies a wave-based account of the propagation that Fourier optics reformulates mathematically.

• Wave opticsRelated: It gives a wave-based account of how light propagates and bends around obstacles.

• Fresnel diffractionRelated: It provides the wavelet-based construction underlying Fresnel diffraction.

• Newton's first lawCompared with: Despite its name, this wave principle does not describe inertial motion or Newton's laws.

• Young's double-slit experimentRelated: It models the emerging light spreading from each narrow opening.

• Fresnel integralsRelated: Its near-field formulation leads to the quadratic-phase diffraction integrals.

• Fresnel numberRelated: The Fresnel number helps simplify the secondary-wave contributions across an aperture.

• Brachistochrone curveRelated: Wave propagation provides a historical optical analogy for deriving fastest paths through changing speeds.