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Consider a spherical wavefront incident on a plane mirror. After reflection, we will get,

A
a spherical wavefront
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a plane wavefront
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Insufficient information
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a cylindrical wavefront
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Solution

The correct option is A a spherical wavefront
As a result of reflection, there is no change in shape of the wavefront. i.e. a spherical wavefront is reflected as a spherical wavefront.

Hence, (B) is the correct answer.

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