Sentences with phrase «light waves overlap»

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 contrast, when the valley of one light wave overlaps with the peak of another light wave, the two waves cancel each other out (destructive interference).

Not exact matches

The trick is to combine the light waves received by each of the smaller mirrors so that the waves line up, creating an interference pattern — a bright spot where the peaks of the separate waves overlap, and darkness where the troughs overlap.

However, physicists can generate a beam by overlapping light waves that make an angle relative to the desired direction (see figure).

The first is by studying the interference patterns of light, but that approach requires the extra step of ensuring that the interacting light waves are in phase — meaning their waveforms overlap precisely.

Such patterns result from overlapping waves of light.

When the peaks of two waves of light overlap, they combine to form a larger peak (constructive interference).

Two floors down, soft white panels overlap in waves hiding overhead lighting — minimal and linear, not unlike the sculptures of Robert Irwin, also on view.