Physik für Geodäsie 511.018 / Physik M 513.805
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If plane waves strike a solid barrier at some angle, the will be reflected off and the reflected waves will interfere with the incoming waves.
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The equations that describe this are,
where $\xi_1 = \frac{k}{\sqrt{2}}x -\frac{k}{\sqrt{2}}y -\omega t$, $\xi_2 = 10\pi-\frac{k}{\sqrt{2}}x -\frac{k}{\sqrt{2}}y -\omega t$, and $H(x)$ is the Heaviside function.