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Is Huygens’s principle valid for longitudinal sound waves?

Longitudinal sound waves are monochromatic or monotone in nature.


Also, Longitudinal wave propagates in space same as Light waves having a spherical symmetry like structure travelling with the same velocity in a homogenous medium which gives us enough evidence that Huygens’s principle is also applicable to sound waves.


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