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  2. Double-slit experiment - Wikipedia

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    When the two waves are in phase, i.e. the path difference is equal to an integral number of wavelengths, the summed amplitude, and therefore the summed intensity is maximum, and when they are in anti-phase, i.e. the path difference is equal to half a wavelength, one and a half wavelengths, etc., then the two waves cancel and the summed ...

  3. Total internal reflection - Wikipedia

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    Fig. 1: Underwater plants in a fish tank, and their inverted images (top) formed by total internal reflection in the water–air surface. In physics, total internal reflection (TIR) is the phenomenon in which waves arriving at the interface (boundary) from one medium to another (e.g., from water to air) are not refracted into the second ("external") medium, but completely reflected back into ...

  4. Full width at half maximum - Wikipedia

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    Full width at half maximum. In a distribution, full width at half maximum (FWHM) is the difference between the two values of the independent variable at which the dependent variable is equal to half of its maximum value. In other words, it is the width of a spectrum curve measured between those points on the y-axis which are half the maximum ...

  5. Radiation resistance - Wikipedia

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    The radiation resistance is only part of the feedpoint resistance at the antenna terminals. An antenna has other energy losses which appear as additional resistance at the antenna terminals; ohmic resistance of the metal antenna elements, ground losses from currents induced in the ground, and dielectric losses in insulating materials.

  6. Shock response spectrum - Wikipedia

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    Due to only tracking the peak instantaneous acceleration the SRS does not contain all the information in the transient waveform from which it was created. [3] Different damping ratios produce different SRSs for the same shock waveform. Zero damping will produce a maximum response. Very high damping produces a very boring SRS: A horizontal line.

  7. Waveplate - Wikipedia

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    A wave passing through a half-wave plate. For a half-wave plate, the relationship between L, Δn, and λ 0 is chosen so that the phase shift between polarization components is Γ = π. Now suppose a linearly polarized wave with polarization vector ^ is incident on the crystal.

  8. Pockels effect - Wikipedia

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    For an example, the halfwave voltage is approximately 7.6 kV for a KDP crystal with a n o = 1.51, r 63 = 10.6X10-12 m/V at λ 0, and Δφ = π. [4] The advantage of using longitudinal Pockels cells is that the voltage requirements for quarter wave or half wave retardance is not dependent on crystal length or diameter.

  9. Radiation pattern - Wikipedia

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    Reciprocity does not apply to the distribution of current in the various parts of the antenna generated by the intercepted waves nor currents that create emitted waves: Antenna current profiles typically differ for receiving and transmitting, despite the waves in the far field radiating inward and outward along the same path, with the same ...