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Hi,
I think the "Liberal Arts" level answer is that the
energy is at the places of constructive interference.
Thanks
Roger Haar
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On 6/22/2012 10:33 AM, Peter Schoch wrote:
A fairly inquisitive student came up with the followingquestion, and I thought I'd get the reaction of the list as
to the best answer.
survey course for those LA majors that need one semester of a
The course is "Liberal Arts Physics" -- designed as a
science. The theme was energy conservation (a bit broad, and
I would narrow it a bit next time I do it).
(more or less)
We are discussing waves. The student asked the following
amplitude squared, and energy can't be created or destroyed,
If a wave can transit energy that is proportional to its
what happens to the energy when two waves destructively interfere?
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