Interference

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Date of this Version

1975

Comments

From Study Modules for Calculus-Based General Physics
Copyright © 1975 CBP Workshop, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Reproduction rights granted.

Abstract

You may have observed the sound from your radio fade in and out as you listened to some distant station. Or perhaps you have sat in a "dead" seat in a poorly designed concert hall where, despite the fact that no physical object is between you and the performer, the sound is distorted and weak. Perhaps you have held two fingers close together and looked with one eye through the narrow slit separating the fingers and observed those mysterious black lines in and parallel to the slit. These and many other similar phenomena result from the interference of two or more waves of the same frequency. This module will provide you with the basis for understanding such phenomena in terms of a wave model.