According to Huygens' principle,every point on a wave front acts as a source of a new _________ wave.
A) transverse
B) spherical
C) longitudinal
D) sinusoidal
E) plane

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According to Huygens' principle, every point on a wave front acts as a source of a new spherical wave. This explains how a wave spreads out in all directions from its source. Each point on the wave front becomes the center of a new wavefront, and the overall wave pattern is the result of the superposition of all these individual spherical waves.

According to Huygens' Principle,every Point on a Wave Front Acts