What is the difference between diffraction and scattering?

Q: What is coherence and interference of Light? What is laser?

A: Answer: Coherence of light and interference of light means

Q: What is diffraction?

A: Given:  diffraction

Q: What kinds of waves can show interference?

A: Interference is the superposition of waves to form a resultant wave. Waves can interfere either…

Q: _9. Waves pass through a 10-cm opening in a barrier without being diffracted. What evidence about…

A: Size of opening in a barrier (d) = 10 cm

Q: A student watches the tide change, and sees water waves pass the end of the dock that follow the…

A: wavelength:- distance between two adjacent crest or through or we can say identical points of…

Q: Water waves may be used to demonstrate refraction by making them pass into water of a different de…

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Q: What is the difference between reflection and refraction?

A: Difference between Reflection and refraction is given below :

Q: Does Huygens' principle apply to sound waves? To water waves? Explain.

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Q: 1. If 23 waves pass by a given point in 4.7 s, determine the period and frequency. 2. If the…

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Q: What is interference?

A: When two Coherent source of light superimposes to give a single modified wave. Coherent sources…

Q: In transverse ways how our wave links in In transverse waves how our wavelenghts and frequency…

A: In ideal conditions wave velocity remains constant in a given medium so frequency is inversely…

Q: What is the difference between interference and Diffraction? -Illustrate on how interference and…

A: What is the difference between interference and Diffraction?-Illustrate on how interference and…

Q: What is the difference between diffraction and scattering?

A: Diffraction:                   Diffraction is a slight bending of light when passing through an edge…

Q: Why does the pencil appear to be split in half and fatter at the bottom? light waves are reflected…

A: The pencil appears to be split in half and fatter at the bottom.

Q: According to Huygens principle, explain how each point on the wave front and secondary wave…

A: Defining the Huygens Principle Huygens principle proposed by Christiaan Huygens In 1678…

Q: Two towers on top of two hills are 40 km apart. The line joining them passes 50 m above a hill…

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Q: Distinguish between transverse and longitudinal waves with appropriate examples.

A: Longitudinal wave is the wave in which displacement of the particle happens parallel to the…

Q: What are two types of interference?

A: Constructive Interference is a type of interference that occurs along the medium where the two…

Q: What happens to the angle of refraction when water waves pass from deep to shallow part of the…

A: Reflection consists of a change in direction of waves when they strike off a barrier. Refraction of…

Q: Water waves may be used to demonstrate refraction by making them pass into water of a different…

A: Refraction of waves involves a change in the direction of waves as they pass from one medium to…

Q: When the three primary light colors are mixed together, what color do you use? a. green b. white…

A: In terms of the primary colors of the light, the subject of the color perception is specified. The…

Q: Does diffraction also occur on sound? Does it behave like a wave? Why?

A: Does diffraction also occur on sound- (YES) Explanation : This is due to diffraction, bending, and…

Q: Why are the Doppler effect and diffraction not as commonly experienced with light as they are with…

A: There is a significant difference in the Doppler Effect for sound and light. This is due to short…

Q: 2 What do all waves transfer? 1 O Energy O material O photons O sound II

A: Introduction: The universe is made up of matter and energy. The matter is made up of time atoms,…

Q: A 2m high water wave travels past an observer. Every 3s he sees 5 full waves pass him. Each peak is…

A: # Frequency = Number of Cycles per second. Since one full wave corresponds to one full cycle,  So…

Q: Provide with great detail, what Interference of waves in two dimensions are.

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Q: Interference

A: Interference: The interference occurs when the two waves interact and due to the superposition…

Q: How does the wavelength of a wave determine the amount of diffraction that will occur if the wave…

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Q: Water waves are produced in a glass-sided ripple tank. Viewed from the side at a particular instant,…

A: A full wave consists of a trough and a crest .In a wave diagram the wave period is the distance…

Q: What is the difference between interference and Diffraction? Illustrate how interference and…

A: difference between interference and Diffraction : The only difference between Diffraction and…

Q: Waves don’t overlap in the image of a pinhole camera. Does this feature contribute to sharpness or…

A: If the pinhole in a pinhole camera is large, the rays will overlap on the image screen because of…

Q: What causes the spectrum of colors seen in gasoline splotches on a wet street? Why are these not…

A: The thickness of the gasoline splotches on a wet street is of the order of wavelength of visible…

Q: What is refractive index? What is refractive index of air, glass, water?

A: Index of refraction or refractive index of a material is a measure that describes how fast light…

Q: Question 2 The wavefront due to a source situated at infinity is O spherical planar O cylindrical O…

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Q: The color of the flames changes when the air hole is opened or closed. What are the colors in the…

A: The flame color depends on the gases present in that chamber. The flame is blue, luminous and clean…

Q: Describe at least one other factor that affects the transparency of materials except for…

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Q: Is it scattering or reflection that accounts for whiteness of a cloud?

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Q: 7. Water waves strike a break-wall near a beach to calm the water close to shore and make it easier…

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Q: The minimum value of the refractive index is: zero 1 less than 1 but not…

A: To find the minimum value of the refractive index.

Q: Which phenomena demonstrate interference of Wazes: 1) sound waves of music coming through a window.…

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Q: Blue skies and red sunsets are due to _______________. a. Mie scattering b. Rayleigh scattering c.…

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Q: Which one of the following phenomena is not explained by Huygen's construction of wavefront. O…

A: Wavefront Locus of all the points lying in same phase.