Engineering Physics — Introduction to Wave Optics + 6 more topics

The two main phenomena that highlight light's wave nature are interference and diffraction.

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Wave propagation is all about how energy moves. A wave is essentially a disturbance that travels through a medium (or even empty space, for electromagnetic waves), transferring energy from one point to another without the net transfer of matter.

Here's how it breaks down:

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