MHT CET Physics question

According to Huygens' principle, a wavefront propagates through a medium by

(A)pushing medium particles
(B)propagating through medium with speed of light
(C)carrying particles of same phase along with it
(D)creating secondary wavelets which forms a new wavefrontCorrect

Answer: (D)

Solution

Huygens' principle states that every point of a wavefront acts as a source of secondary wavelets and their common tangent forms the new wavefront; the

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