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(A) Yes,Huygens' principle is valid for all types of waves,including both mechanical waves (like longitudinal sound waves) and electromagnetic waves.A

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(A) Yes,Huygens' principle is valid for all types of waves,including both mechanical waves (like longitudinal sound waves) and electromagnetic waves.According to Huygens' principle,every point on a wavefront acts as a source of secondary wavelets,and the new wavefront is the envelope of these secondary wavelets at a later time. This geometric construction applies to any wave propagation mechanism.

Is Huygens' principle valid for longitudinal sound waves?

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