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Does Huygens Principle apply to the Sound Waves?


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According to Huygens’s principle, every point on the wave-front is a source of a number of the wavelets that spread out in the forward direction with the same speed as that of the wave. Huygens's Principle is applicable to all types of waves.

Hence, Huygens's Principle is applicable to the Sound Waves.


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