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How does refraction affect the direction of a wave?
What is diffraction?
examples of interference Doppler shift Figure 18: Progression of elliptically polarized wave (see text). wavelength
View an animation explaining how small things like electrons and protons can behave like particles and sometimes like waves
Understand the uncertainty principle as defined by the properties of waves
Understanding Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in subatomic particles
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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
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examples of interference
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Figure 18: Progression of elliptically polarized wave (see text).
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How does refraction affect the direction of a wave?
What is diffraction?
View an animation explaining how small things like electrons and protons can behave like particles and sometimes like waves
Understand the uncertainty principle as defined by the properties of waves
Understanding Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in subatomic particles
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Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Kip Thorne
American physicist
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Ernst Mach
Austrian physicist

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