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constructive interference

noun

, Physics.
  1. the interference of two or more waves of equal frequency and phase, resulting in their mutual reinforcement and producing a single amplitude equal to the sum of the amplitudes of the individual waves.


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This well-known fringe pattern phenomenon is caused by consistent constructive interference but has different characteristics when radio waves propagate around a neutron star.

"In a typical X-ray diffraction experiment, one makes use of the constructive interference of the X-rays scattered from the periodically aligned atoms to measure their average positions," says Michael Först, one of the leading authors of this work.

This is called constructive interference.

With constructive interference, the detectors would register 4,000 pairs of photons per second.

With constructive interference, the detectors would register 4,000 pairs of photons per second.

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