According to Huygens principle, a wave front propagates through a medium by (a) pushing particles of the medium (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 wave front

Answer: (d). Huygens' principle: every point on a wavefront acts as a source of secondary wavelets. The forward envelope (common tangent) of these wavelets gives the new wavefront. So the answer is (d).

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Answer: (d)

Huygens' principle: every point on a wavefront acts as a source of secondary wavelets.
The forward envelope (common tangent) of these wavelets gives the new wavefront.
So the answer is (d).

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