{"id":790,"date":"2019-06-17T19:21:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T19:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/louisville-wm-physics\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=790"},"modified":"2019-08-10T15:07:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T15:07:56","slug":"putting-it-together-wave-interference","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/louisville-wm-physics\/chapter\/putting-it-together-wave-interference\/","title":{"raw":"Putting It Together:  Wave Interference","rendered":"Putting It Together:  Wave Interference"},"content":{"raw":"There are wave behaviors you are so used to, you don\u2019t even think about them.\u00a0 The fact that sound bends as it passes through an opening is a common enough occurrence that you probably don\u2019t stop to think about it.\u00a0 If someone is in a room and you are out in the hallway, you don\u2019t have to be right in front of the door to hear what they are saying.\u00a0 The sound bends as it passes through the doorway in a wave behavior known as diffraction.\u00a0 But if that same person were to sign a flashlight at the door, the light wouldn\u2019t bend and illuminate where you are.\u00a0 As we will see next semester, light is also a wave, but the differences between light waves and sound waves mean that we will need a different experiment to see the diffraction of light.\u00a0 Though passing through a doorway or around a tree is sufficient for sound to bend as it travels, we will need to rescale our doorway and our tree to see light diffract.","rendered":"<p>There are wave behaviors you are so used to, you don\u2019t even think about them.\u00a0 The fact that sound bends as it passes through an opening is a common enough occurrence that you probably don\u2019t stop to think about it.\u00a0 If someone is in a room and you are out in the hallway, you don\u2019t have to be right in front of the door to hear what they are saying.\u00a0 The sound bends as it passes through the doorway in a wave behavior known as diffraction.\u00a0 But if that same person were to sign a flashlight at the door, the light wouldn\u2019t bend and illuminate where you are.\u00a0 As we will see next semester, light is also a wave, but the differences between light waves and sound waves mean that we will need a different experiment to see the diffraction of light.\u00a0 Though passing through a doorway or around a tree is sufficient for sound to bend as it travels, we will need to rescale our doorway and our tree to see light diffract.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-790\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Putting It Together:  Wave Interference. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Raymond Chastain. <strong>Provided 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