"To Find the Value of the Resultant Displacement for Overlapping

question 38

Multiple Choice

"To find the value of the resultant displacement for overlapping waves at any point at a particular instant,it is only necessary to add the values of the displacements for the individual waves." This is a statement of

• A)Huygens' principle.
• B)the principle of superposition.
• C)Bernoulli's principle.
• D)the principle of dispersion.
• E)Newton's theory of light.

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