For light diverging from a point source



Now a point source will be like


Now as we can see that a point source will propagate in all direction therefore, its wavefront will be spherical in nature.


And as it propagates to a larger area, its intensity will decrease. ( As the same amount of energy is now being distributed over a larger area) Therefore it is dependent on its radius. This is given by



R is radius of spherical wave front.

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