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  2. Euler spiral - Wikipedia

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    The process of obtaining solution of (x, y) of an Euler spiral can thus be described as: Map L of the original Euler spiral by multiplying with factor a to L′ of the normalized Euler spiral; Find (x′, y′) from the Fresnel integrals; and; Map (x′, y′) to (x, y) by scaling up (denormalize) with factor ⁠ 1 / a ⁠. Note that ⁠ 1 / a ...

  3. Fresnel integral - Wikipedia

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    The sector contour used to calculate the limits of the Fresnel integrals. This can be derived with any one of several methods. One of them [5] uses a contour integral of the function around the boundary of the sector-shaped region in the complex plane formed by the positive x-axis, the bisector of the first quadrant y = x with x ≥ 0, and a circular arc of radius R centered at the origin.

  4. List of spirals - Wikipedia

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    For <, spiral-ring pattern; =, regular spiral; >, loose spiral. R is the distance of spiral starting point (0, R) to the center. R is the distance of spiral starting point (0, R) to the center. The calculated x and y have to be rotated backward by ( − θ {\displaystyle -\theta } ) for plotting.

  5. Fresnel equations - Wikipedia

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    The Fresnel equations give the ratio of the reflected wave's electric field to the incident wave's electric field, and the ratio of the transmitted wave's electric field to the incident wave's electric field, for each of two components of polarization. (The magnetic fields can also be related using

  6. Fresnel diffraction - Wikipedia

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    Fresnel diffraction of circular aperture, plotted with Lommel functions. This is the Fresnel diffraction integral; it means that, if the Fresnel approximation is valid, the propagating field is a spherical wave, originating at the aperture and moving along z. The integral modulates the amplitude and phase of the spherical wave.

  7. Augustin-Jean Fresnel - Wikipedia

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    Augustin-Jean Fresnel [Note 1] (10 May 1788 – 14 July 1827) was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, excluding any remnant of Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late 1830s [3] until the end of the 19th century.

  8. Chern–Gauss–Bonnet theorem - Wikipedia

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    The Chern–Gauss–Bonnet theorem can be seen as a special instance in the theory of characteristic classes. The Chern integrand is the Euler class. Since it is a top-dimensional differential form, it is closed. The naturality of the Euler class means that when changing the Riemannian metric, one stays in the same cohomology class. That means ...

  9. Huygens–Fresnel principle - Wikipedia

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    Wave refraction in the manner of Huygens Wave diffraction in the manner of Huygens and Fresnel. The Huygens–Fresnel principle (named after Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens and French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel) states that every point on a wavefront is itself the source of spherical wavelets, and the secondary wavelets emanating from different points mutually interfere. [1]