Physik für Geodäsie 511.018 / Physik M 513.805
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Two plane waves can also interfere and we can calculate the resulting wave by adding the two plane waves together. Here a right-moving wave pulse meets a left-moving wave pulse.
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The interference is described by,
where $\xi_R = kx -\omega t$, $\xi_L = 10\pi-kx -\omega t$, and $H(x)$ is the Heaviside function.