Question
What is wave-front ?
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Answer
Wave-front : A wave is a disturbance starting from a light source (say origin) which propagates around the source in all possible directions in homogeneous medium ether. Thus particles of ether start vibrating. At any instant for the same distance from the source all particles are in the same phase.
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