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What is the shape of the wavfront on the Earth for sunlight?

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Considering the sun as a point, the wavefront originating from the sun is spherical. But the radius of the spherical wavefront is huge as compared to the Earth.s radius. So only a protion of spherical wavefront will reach the Earth and that can be treated as a plane wavefront.
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