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27.2 Exercise 1

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Which of the following statements is true about Huygens’s principle of secondary wavelets?

  1. It can be used to explain the particle behavior of waves.
  2. It states that each point on a wavefront can be considered a new wave source.
  3. It can be used to find the velocity of a wave.
  4. All of the above.

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 27.2 Huygens's Principle: Diffraction, exercise 1

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