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Light and sound waves do all kinds of cool stuff, because they can be in the same place at the same time, unlike matter.

Waves add and subtract their amplitudes when they overlap. Created by David SantoPietro. Watch the next lesson: ...

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What happens when single photons of light pass through a double slit and are detected by a photomultiplier tube? In 1801 ...

Light is everywhere but it's not as predictable as you might think. It's a wave that travels in straight lines, yet it also reflects off of ...

As the waves emerging from each slit overlap, they interfere with each other. This

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