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PHYS 201 | Fermat's Principle 3 - From Fermat to Snell

Fermat's ideas about light even jive with Snell's Law of refraction. Are Fermat and Huygens's ideas the same at some deep geometrical level? Probably. But it's not really physics so let's move on.

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