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isabellajone
isabellajone
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What does the term diffraction mean?

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Posted by isabellajone on Monday December 1, 2008 at 4:51 AM and tagged with diffraction, meaning, physic.

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  1. ronald75
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    The term diffraction is applied to problems in which one is concerned with the resultant effect produced by a limited portion of a wave surface. If only a part of the wave is cut off by some obstacle, are the effects commonly called diffraction. Diffraction is sometimes defined as the  bending of light around the obstacle and its presence in the region of geometrical shadow.

     

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    Posted by ronald75 on Monday December 1, 2008 at 5:09 AM