When two mechanical waves have a displacement in opposite directions, and they overlap, what will the resulting wave look like and why? the new wave will have the same displacement as the original waves due to constructive interference. the new wave will have a smaller displacement than either of the original waves due to destructive interference. the new wave will have a greater displacement than either of the original waves due to constructive interference. the new wave will have the same displacement as the original waves due to destructive interference.

The new wave will have a smaller displacement than either of the original waves due to destructive interference.

Explanation:

As we know that the resultant displacement of two waves at a point where two or more waves are superimposed is given by the vector sum of the displacement due to each wave

So we will say

so here we can say that if the two particles which are superimposed are in same phase then it will constructive interference and the resultant displacement will be more than the individual displacement of each wave

while if the two particles are in opposite phase then this is known as destructive interference and the resultant displacement of the wave at that point is less than the individual displacement if each wave

quantum mechanics or quantum physics is physics of very small objects (particles) and physical entities.

quantum physics has some parallels to our macro world and some pretty unique ideas which theoretically and mathematically proven to be true even though we will never be able to access them because of our size.

there are many types of particles: subatomic, elementary etc.

subatomic means they are smaller than atom, elementary means they are at the very basis of everything.

subatomic particles are for eg. protons, neutrons but not electrons.

elementary particles are categorised into 3 groups by what they do.

these 3 groups are quarks, leptons and bosons.

light for example is a particle more precisely a photon a part of leptons.

proton (subatomic particle) is made out of 2 up quarks and 1 down quark each of these has a fractional charge like . (i crazy)

most famous scientist who contributed to this physics are:

the topic itself us understand a lot and will probably be vastly used in the future (quantum computers, understanding the big bang,

we also must not forget quantum effects like:

and there is more. but probably too much for this answer to be consistent due to my average understanding of this topic.

hope this you understand quantum mechanics a little more. i'm not an expert in the topic (so don't be like wth if you are an expert) but i'm very interested in it.

anyways quantum physics is a very hard topic (harder than physics (perhaps)) therefore searching for every information there is about it and learning it is unfortunately impossible (you can only specialise into 1 - 3 things or more (perhaps

have fun and i wish you luck!

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