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If two equal but opposite pulses in a rope coincide, where does the kinetic go? [duplicate]
Imagine two people holding a rope. They send at the same time equal but opposite pulses (by moving the rope quickly up and down) through the rope. When the pulses completely overlap the rope is ...
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Energy cancellation during superposition, why not? String waves [duplicate]
So you have a piece of string. Two people create a half wave at either end, one up and one down of equal magnitude. When they reach each other they will superimpose to create the sum of their ...
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What happens to energy when waves cancel out? [duplicate]
So this is basically What happens to the energy when waves perfectly cancel each other? again, but I'm not understanding the answers given (or they don't address what I am confused about)
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What happens to the energy when waves perfectly cancel each other?
What happens to the energy when waves completely cancel each other out via destructive interference? It seems like the energy just disappears, but that would violate the law of energy conservation.
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Can two waves interfere head on?
Can two waves (like sound or electromagnetic waves) interfere head on? If yes, and suppose they are out of phase with each other and thus interfere destructively, where does the energy of the waves go?...
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Why does a spring mass system oscillate?
For simply harmonic motion,
acceleration $= -\omega^2 x$, where $\omega$ is the angular frequency.
Within limits of Hooke's law,
the restoring force on the spring is given by
$$F= -k \cdot x$$
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How does a string store information during wave superposition?
Given we have two Guassian wave pulses in the same medium (string) but in opposite directions. The principle of superposition states that they should pass through each other without being disturbed, ...
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What happens to the velocity distribution during constructive interference?
Two pulses(one inverted & having velocity in the opposite direction) moving towards each other with same wavelength & amplitude after undergoing destructive interference do re-appear. Why? ...
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How can 2 EM waves null each other at a point but continue to propagate?
how can 2 EM waves (travelling in opposite directions) null each other at a point in space but continue to propagate beyond the point in space where they interact to null each other?
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Is the state of a system represented by a point $\textbf{q}=(q_1,q_2,q_3...q_n)^T$ in configuration space?
I was reading the lecture notes titled: 'An introduction to Lagrangian
and Hamiltonian mechanics'.
In these notes, he writes at one place:
We consider mechanical systems that are holonomic and ...
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