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| Mar 10, 2015 at 1:58 | answer | added | Floris | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 29, 2014 at 13:44 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 12, 2014 at 18:05 | comment | added | garyp | Your boss might have some unspoken reason for thinking that this procedure won't work. Are you modeling an experiment where the light is not well collimated? | |
| Mar 12, 2014 at 16:34 | answer | added | John Rennie | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 12, 2014 at 15:40 | comment | added | YungHummmma | @dmckee Also, a question related to that: You need the full spectrum of frequencies to create arbitrary functions. So what happens if you shine monochromatic light on it? | |
| Mar 12, 2014 at 15:24 | comment | added | YungHummmma | @dmckee Right, so that was my first thought in response: plane waves form a complete set, so anything else is just some linear combination of them. What do you mean by 'locally' though? Just within the film? | |
| Mar 12, 2014 at 15:14 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | It is true that any arrangement of fields can be locally modeled as a sum over plane waves, so the question reduces to either "Am I satisfied with local correctness?" or "Is the plane wave description correct over a sufficiently extended area in this case?" depending on your problem. | |
| Mar 12, 2014 at 14:42 | history | asked | YungHummmma | CC BY-SA 3.0 |