Destructive superposition
What Destructive superposition means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: AQA
A path difference of a half-number of wavelengths gives this, producing dark fringes.
Where displacements have opposite signs, giving a smaller or zero resultant.
Topics that use Destructive superposition
- Interference (AQA A-Level)
- Superposition (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Coherence
- Constructive interference
- Constructive superposition
- Destructive interference
- Grating spacing
- Interference
- Path difference
- Coherent monochromatic sources
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