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Videos
Perceive refraction as a wave's speed is changed by its passing between different media
Learn more about refraction.
Discover diffraction as a property of sound, electromagnetic radiation, and small moving particles
Learn about diffraction of sound, electromagnetic radiation, and small moving particles.
View an animation explaining how small things like electrons and protons can behave like particles and sometimes like waves
A lesson on how small things, like electrons and protons, can behave like both a...
Understand the uncertainty principle as defined by the properties of waves
Learn about the uncertainty principle as defined by the properties of waves.
Examine the application of Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle of subatomic particles
A video overview of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
See a demonstration explaining the wave-particle duality of an electron
A demonstration of the wave-particle duality of an electron.
Images
examples of interference
When two waves of identical wavelength (shown in blue and yellow) are in phase, they...
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