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Grade 12General Physics

WHAT IS HUYGENS PRINCIPLE?

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10 Years agoGrade 12
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Huygens’s Principle:-
a) Every point on the primary wave front gives out secondary wavelets.
b) These secondary wavelets move in the forward direction with speed of light.
c) The position of the new wave front is obtained by drawing a tangent drawn to the edges of
these wavelets at any instant.
 
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10 Years ago
 
Huygens’s Principle:-
a) Every point on the primary wave front gives out secondary wavelets.
b) These secondary wavelets move in the forward direction with speed of light.
c) The position of the new wave front is obtained by drawing a tangent drawn to the edges of
these wavelets at any instant.
 
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10 Years ago
 
Huygens’s Principle:-
a) Every point on the primary wave front gives out secondary wavelets.
b) These secondary wavelets move in the forward direction with speed of light.
c) The position of the new wave front is obtained by drawing a tangent drawn to the edges of
these wavelets at any instant.
 
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10 Years ago
 
Huygens’s Principle:-
a) Every point on the primary wave front gives out secondary wavelets.
b) These secondary wavelets move in the forward direction with speed of light.
c) The position of the new wave front is obtained by drawing a tangent drawn to the edges of
these wavelets at any instant.
 
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10 Years ago
Huygens’s Principle:-a) Every point on the primary wave front gives out secondary wavelets.b) These secondary wavelets move in the forward direction with speed of light.c) The position of the new wave front is obtained by drawing a tangent drawn to the edges ofthese wavelets at any instant.
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10 Years ago
Huygens’s Principle:-a) Every point on the primary wave front gives out secondary wavelets.b) These secondary wavelets move in the forward direction with speed of light.c) The position of the new wave front is obtained by drawing a tangent drawn to the edges ofthese wavelets at any instant.