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    Physical optics is the branch of optics that studies phenomena like interference, diffraction, and polarization where the ray model of light used in geometric optics is not accurate. Diffraction can be thought of as the bending of light waves around small obstacles, as seen with the colors displayed on CDs when exposed to light due to the diffraction of light waves around the small structures on the disc's surface.

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    Physical optics is the branch of optics that studies phenomena like interference, diffraction, and polarization where the ray model of light used in geometric optics is not accurate. Diffraction can be thought of as the bending of light waves around small obstacles, as seen with the colors displayed on CDs when exposed to light due to the diffraction of light waves around the small structures on the disc's surface.

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    Physical optics is the branch of optics that studies phenomena like interference, diffraction, and polarization where the ray model of light used in geometric optics is not accurate. Diffraction can be thought of as the bending of light waves around small obstacles, as seen with the colors displayed on CDs when exposed to light due to the diffraction of light waves around the small structures on the disc's surface.

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    In physics, physical optics, or wave optics, is the branch of optics which studies interference, diffraction, polarization, and other

    phenomena for which the ray approximation of geometric optics is not valid. source:wikipedia

    There is no practical difference between intereference and diffraction,however you can say diffraction is bending of light waves around a small obstacle.Think abou the CD colours in presence of light?

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