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alternating current
- In electricity: Alternating-current circuits
coherent light
- In coherence
electric generators
- In electric generator: Phases
sound interference
- In sound: Constructive and destructive

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: Indian Academy of Sciences - The fluid mechanics of phase change (PDF).	Gloria Lotha	Dec 23, 2024
	Add new Web site: Nature - Correlative image learning of chemo-mechanics in phase-transforming solids.	Aakanksha Gaur	Jun 07, 2024
	Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Phase diagrams.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 11, 2024
	Add new Web site: Academia - On the notion of phase in mechanics.	Gloria Lotha	Dec 14, 2023
	Added new Web site: HyperPhysics - Phase.	Shiveta Singh	Apr 07, 2008
	Article revised and updated.	William L. Hosch	Jun 09, 2006
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998