 | Augustin-Jean Fresnel (10 May 1788 – 14 July 1827) was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance... 199 KB (26,258 words) - 20:20, 19 March 2024 |
 | The Huygens–Fresnel principle (named after Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens and French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel) states that every point on a... 24 KB (3,026 words) - 07:08, 19 February 2024 |
 | optical media. They were deduced by French engineer and physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel (/freɪˈnɛl/) who was the first to understand that light is a transverse... 70 KB (8,291 words) - 18:50, 28 February 2024 |
 | A Fresnel zone (English: /freɪˈnɛl/ fray-NEL), named after physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, is one of a series of confocal prolate ellipsoidal regions... 15 KB (2,208 words) - 05:47, 17 August 2023 |
 | de Buffon, and independently reinvented by the French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788–1827) for use in lighthouses. The catadioptric (combining... 56 KB (6,475 words) - 17:28, 21 April 2024 |
 | The Fresnel integrals S(x) and C(x) are two transcendental functions named after Augustin-Jean Fresnel that are used in optics and are closely related... 21 KB (2,577 words) - 09:47, 17 February 2024 |
particular scalar diffraction theory, the Fresnel number (F), named after the physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, is a dimensionless number relating to the... 8 KB (964 words) - 15:41, 26 December 2023 |
 | Zone plate (redirect from Fresnel zone plate) reflection. Based on analysis by French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, they are sometimes called Fresnel zone plates in his honor. The zone plate's focusing... 10 KB (1,274 words) - 12:40, 17 April 2024 |
 | effect by Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in 1823, added to the evidence in favor of the wave theory of light. The phase shifts are used by Fresnel's invention... 109 KB (13,482 words) - 00:20, 23 April 2024 |
interference between light of different states of polarization. Augustin-Jean Fresnel and François Arago, both discovered the laws, which bear their name... 3 KB (540 words) - 04:46, 4 February 2024 |
Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788–1827) was a physicist. Fresnel may also refer to: Fresnel (frequency), a formerly used unit equal to one terahertz Rimae Fresnel... 621 bytes (105 words) - 14:48, 27 April 2023 |
 | clarity. No such confusion subsists in Augustin-Jean Fresnel's "Second Memoir" on double refraction (Fresnel, 1827), which addresses Fermat's principle... 61 KB (8,178 words) - 09:56, 20 February 2024 |
 | predicted the Arago spot in his attempt to disprove the wave theory of Augustin-Jean Fresnel. Poisson was born in Pithiviers, Loiret district in France, the... 34 KB (4,390 words) - 04:00, 25 April 2024 |
 | domain. Fraunhofer diffraction Fresnel integral Fresnel zone Fresnel number Augustin-Jean Fresnel Ridged mirror Fresnel imager Euler spiral Born, Max;... 14 KB (2,346 words) - 19:25, 27 February 2024 |
linear polarization (French: polarisation rectiligne) was coined by Augustin-Jean Fresnel in 1822. See polarization and plane of polarization for more information... 5 KB (666 words) - 01:36, 23 June 2023 |
Aether drag hypothesis (redirect from Fresnel drag coefficient) measurable by instruments at rest on Earth's surface. In 1818, Augustin-Jean Fresnel proposed that the aether is partially entrained by matter. In 1845... 25 KB (3,234 words) - 07:47, 24 January 2024 |
 | Plane of polarization (section Fresnel's choice) corpuscular theory of light, could only choose the ray direction. But Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in his successful effort to explain double refraction under the... 31 KB (3,830 words) - 21:41, 8 January 2024 |
 | three terms were coined by Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a memoir read to the French Academy of Sciences on 9 December 1822. Fresnel had first described the... 38 KB (4,929 words) - 21:32, 1 April 2024 |
 | The principles of diffraction were discovered by Thomas Young and Augustin-Jean Fresnel. Using these principles, Fraunhofer was the first to use a diffraction... 49 KB (5,749 words) - 11:40, 26 April 2024 |
of elliptical polarization. This terminology was introduced by Augustin-Jean Fresnel in 1822, before the electromagnetic nature of light waves was known... 8 KB (1,128 words) - 01:21, 3 November 2023 |
1012 hertz). It is named for Augustin-Jean Fresnel the physicist whose expertise in optics led to the creation of Fresnel lenses. Bayliss, Noel S. "The... 999 bytes (98 words) - 20:11, 13 March 2023 |
 | Newton. Young's work was subsequently supported by the work of Augustin-Jean Fresnel. Young belonged to a Quaker family of Milverton, Somerset, where... 39 KB (4,445 words) - 11:06, 16 April 2024 |
 | specifically not birefringent. The Fresnel rhomb is named after its inventor, the French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, who developed the device in stages... 38 KB (4,841 words) - 15:34, 30 March 2024 |
 | experiment that seemingly supported the partial ether-drag hypothesis of Augustin Jean Fresnel, but which ultimately played an instrumental role in bringing about... 7 KB (781 words) - 18:55, 24 January 2024 |
 | rejected in favour of Newton's corpuscular theory of light, until Augustin-Jean Fresnel adapted Huygens's principle to give a complete explanation of the... 134 KB (14,062 words) - 19:04, 8 April 2024 |
 | top light. The distinctive lens used in a Fresnel lantern is named after its inventor, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, who developed it for use in lighthouses.... 6 KB (708 words) - 07:21, 11 October 2023 |
artist Augustin Ehrensvärd (1887–1968), Swedish nobleman and civil servant Augustin Farah (1910–1983), archbishop in Tripoli Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788–1827)... 6 KB (637 words) - 08:17, 5 March 2024 |
 | which have one of the strongest birefringences. In the 19th century Augustin-Jean Fresnel described the phenomenon in terms of polarization, understanding... 59 KB (6,582 words) - 03:52, 16 April 2024 |
 | 18 – Charlotte Murchison, Scottish geologist (d. 1869) May 10 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French engineer, physicist and inventor (d. 1827) May 16 – Friedrich... 19 KB (2,214 words) - 08:23, 16 April 2024 |
wave nature of light, beyond those provided by Thomas Young and Augustin-Jean Fresnel. In the experiment, light from a monochromatic slit source reflects... 11 KB (1,179 words) - 07:33, 7 February 2024 |