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A wavefront is……….of all the particales of a medium which are…………….. .

A

a surface imagined parallel and coplanar with light rays

B

a surface around a source such that each point of it is at a constant distance from the source

C

a surface which contains the plane of oscillations of electric field of light

D

a surface which is created by medium particles oscillating in same phase

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A wavefront is locus of all the particles oscillating in same phase.
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MHTCET PREVIOUS YEAR PAPERS AND PRACTICE PAPERS-WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT -EXERCISE 1
  1. Which of the following generates a plane wavefront?

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  2. When a ray of light is incident normally on a surface, then

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  3. A wavefront is……….of all the particales of a medium which are…………….. .

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  4. Which of the following statement (s) is/are correct? I. A point sour...

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  5. The idea of secondary wavelets for the propagation of a wave was first...

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  6. A shortcoming of Huygen's model could not

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  7. Ray diverging from a point source from a wave front that is

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  8. Wavefront is the locus of all points, where the particles of the mediu...

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  9. Light waves travel in vacuum along the y-axis. Which of the following ...

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  10. A light wave travels through a medium carrying energy in three dimensi...

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  11. According to Huygens' principle, a wavefront propagates through a medi...

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  12. In given figure, light passes from denser medium 1 to rarer medium 2. ...

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  13. Figure shows behaviour of a wavefront when it passes through a prism. ...

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  14. If a source of light is moving away from a stationary observer, then t...

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  15. If a star is moving towards the earth, then the lines are shifted towa...

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  16. It is believed that the universe is expanding and hence the distant st...

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  17. In case of reflection of a wavefront from a reflecting surface, I...

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  18. If AB is incident wavefront, then refracted wavefront is

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  19. In the context of Doppler effect in light, the term red shift signifie...

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  20. If source and observer are moving towards each other with a velocity v...

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