Physicists at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, US have found a new and surprising link between the wave properties of light and the mechanical properties of point masses.
Their finding bridges the gap between classical mechanics and the optics of coherent waves via theories put forward 350 years ago by the Dutch mathematical physicist Christiaan Huygens.
Huygens’s biggest discoveries came in the two most prominent fields of 17th-century physics: optics and mechanics. Among other advances, he was the first to propose (in the 1670s) a wave description of light that accounts for optical propagation as well as important phenomena such as interference, diffraction and polarization that were observed later.
Huygens’s biggest discoveries came in the two most prominent fields of 17th-century physics: optics and mechanics. Among other advances, he was the first to propose (in the 1670s) a wave description of light that accounts for optical propagation as well as important phenomena such as interference, diffraction and polarization that were observed later.
He also worked on the mechanical concepts of centre of mass and moment of inertia, which are the two fundamental properties that describe how rigid bodies move.
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