Sentences with phrase «dark wave band»

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If the wave function isn't actually real, what creates those light and dark bands?

Short - wavelength light bounces back and forth between the ends of the guide, and the peaks and troughs of the counter-propagating light waves overlap to create a pattern of bright and dark bands much like the pressure patterns with a ringing organ pipe.

In optics the double - slit experiment showed the interference of two slightly displaced light waves of the same frequency gives rise to a series of alternating dark and bright bands.

As the waves spread out beyond the slits they interfere, giving a distinctive pattern of pale and dark bands when the light strikes a background screen.