Category
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interference
phenomenon in which two coherent waves combine into a resultant wave with greater intensity or lower amplitude
moiré pattern
interference pattern

phasor
thumb|An example of series RLC circuit and respective phasor diagram for a specific . The arrows in the upper diagram are phasors, drawn in a phasor diagram ([[complex plane without axis shown), which must not be confused with the arrows in the lower diagram, which are the reference polarity for the voltages and the reference direction for the current.]]
Newton's rings
optical phenomenon
beat
term in acoustics
bulbous bow
Protruding bulb at the front of a ship
Young's interference experiment
1801 double-slit optical experiment by Thomas Young
interference filter
wavelength-selective optical filter

speckle pattern
The grainy appearance of an object when a laser is directed at it
envelope
function describing the extremes of an oscillating signal
interference
anything which modifies, or disrupts a communication signal
carrier-to-noise ratio
the signal-to-noise ratio of a modulated signal
Conoscopic interference pattern
A pattern of birefringence colors
Fresnel–Arago laws