Talk:Kirchhoff's diffraction formula

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The derivation here follows closely that of Born and Wolf. Some of the variable names and the form of some equations have been changed, but the mathematics is that of B&W. Epzcaw (talk) 18:52, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Added the derivation of Fraunhofer diffraction equation and brief reference to Fresnel - more detailed derivation of this to follow Epzcaw (talk) 23:16, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Substituted an expanded version. Just replacing my own work. Epzcaw (talk) 10:52, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Clean up...[edit]

My main fixes were:

remove needless ToC code at beggining - no other articles use it, it doesn't so anything
addded eqn navbox
add further reading section
moved assumptions into each section, why leave them all at the end??
remove the {{math|A}} templates, again why not just use html ''A'' or LaTeX?? much easier to maintain.

More could probably be done but too busy for now.-- F = q(E + v × B) 22:46, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Much improved.

Re use of the {{math|A}} template - Help:Displaying a formula#TeX vs HTML suggests the TeX method has many advantages compared with using HTML though it does not prescribe its use. Someone instructed me some time ago (can't remember who or when) that this is what should be used for presenting equations or maths symbols within text, and I have done so since. Yours looks fine to me, and is obviously much simpler to produce, but I think I will continue to use {{math|A}} in future work Epzcaw (talk) 08:43, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mistake[edit]

Hello everybody, it's my first time to comment on wikipedia so be nice, ;-) I think there is a mistake in the following: "assume that the aperture lies in the yz plane, and the co-ordinates of P0, P and Q (a general point in the aperture) are (x0,y0,x0), (x,y,z) and (0,y' ,z' ) respectively." If I look at the following formulas, I would rather say that the aperture lies in the xy plane and P0=(x',y',0). Am I wrong? --141.113.86.94 (talk) 15:17, 31 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]