Diffraction And The Debye-Scherrer Camera
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Many scientific applications have made great use of the wave nature of light. Until the first half of the century the nature of light remained completely a mystery. Some thought light to be a particle while others believed it to be a wave. Scientists now know that wave exhibits properties of bo ....
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.... has a displacement function given by the following relation
x = Acos(wt + f)
where x is the position along the x axis
A is the amplitude or in other words the maximum possible
displacement
w is the angular frequency and f is the phase constant
or phase angle and has units of radians per second.
The phase constant determines the position of the particle at time t = 0. The quantity (wt+ f) is called the phase. The above function x repeats itself whenever wt = n2p where n is an integer. ....
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