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You might have heard that light is a kind of wave and that the color of an object is related to the frequency of light waves it reflects.
High-frequency light waves look violet, low-frequency light waves look red, and in-between frequencies look yellow, green, orange, and so on.
So, in this yellow looking region, two different kinds of light waves are present: one with a red frequency, and one with a green frequency.
Only waves make interference patterns, particles don't.
The structures that they build protect our shorelines from storm surge and waves, and the biological systems that they house filter the water and make it safer for us to work and play.
They can even feel pressure waves; they can hear sound.
Imagine yourself standing on a beach, looking out over the ocean, waves crashing against the shore, blue as far as your eyes can see.
While 4200 meters of Hawaii's Mauna Kea sit above sea level, its sides plummet beneath the waves for another 5800 meters.
Because it's also useful in studying curves, pi helps us understand periodic or oscillating systems like clocks, electromagnetic waves, and even music.
Gorgonian fans oscillate with the waves.
Different kinds of light are all around you everyday but are invisible to the human eye, from the radio waves that carry your favorite songs, to the x-rays doctors use to see inside of you, to the microwaves that heat up your food.
Light waves are kind of like waves on the ocean.
There are big waves and small waves, waves that crash on the shore one right after the other, and waves that only roll in every so often.
Imagine being a boat in that ocean, bobbing up and down as the waves go by.
If the waves that day have long wavelengths, they'll make you bob only so often, or at a low frequency.
If the waves, instead, have short wavelengths, they'll be close together, and you'll bob up and down much more often, at a high frequency.
Different kinds of light are all waves, they just have different wavelengths and frequencies.
If you were out sailing on a day with short, choppy waves, you'd probably be pretty high energy yourself, running around to keep things from falling over.
Radio waves have long wavelengths, while x-rays have short wavelengths.
They appear to behave either as particles, like little baseballs, or as waves, like water waves, depending on the experiment that we perform.
Although tsunamis are commonly known as tidal waves, they're actually unrelated to the tidal activity caused by the gravitational forces of the Sun and Moon.
In many ways, tsunamis are just larger versions of regular waves.
For normal ocean waves, it comes from wind.
Because this only affects the surface, the waves are limited in size and speed.
The light that our eyes can see, including all of the colors of the rainbow, is just a small part of the larger spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, which includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet, x-rays, and gamma rays.
To get a particle with both position and momentum, we need to mix the two pictures to make a graph that has waves, but only in a small area.
By combining waves with different wavelengths, which means giving our quantum object some possibility of having different momenta.
When we add two waves, we find that there are places where the peaks line up, making a bigger wave, and other places where the peaks of one fill in the valleys of the other.
The result has regions where we see waves separated by regions of nothing at all.
If we add a third wave, the regions where the waves cancel out get bigger, a fourth and they get bigger still, with the wavier regions becoming narrower.
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