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... produce two fully identical sources of light . Each source of light is like a full orchestra producing any number of tones . The countless light waves , for example , that issue from a candle flame will never produce interference with ...
... produce two fully identical sources of light . Each source of light is like a full orchestra producing any number of tones . The countless light waves , for example , that issue from a candle flame will never produce interference with ...
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... produced by screens or small openings may be considered the result of concerted action of Huygens ' elementary waves which issue from the unscreened parts of the wave . The elementary waves interfere with one another , and thus produce ...
... produced by screens or small openings may be considered the result of concerted action of Huygens ' elementary waves which issue from the unscreened parts of the wave . The elementary waves interfere with one another , and thus produce ...
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... produce a thin paste , the wave lengths transmitted by this paste will always depend on the relative ratio of the two liquids within the mixture . We can in this way produce filters for narrow wave length ranges of red , yellow , green ...
... produce a thin paste , the wave lengths transmitted by this paste will always depend on the relative ratio of the two liquids within the mixture . We can in this way produce filters for narrow wave length ranges of red , yellow , green ...
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CONTENTS | 9 |
Light Waves a Useful Fiction | 20 |
The Speed of Light | 32 |
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