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Huygen's principle of secondary wavelets may be used to find the velocity of light in vacuum explain the particle behaviour of light find the new position of wavefront explain Snell's law

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find the velocity of light in vacuum

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explain the particle behaviour of light

C

find the new position of wavefront

D

explain Snell's law

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