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Grade 9General Physics

Why don't waves with different wavelengths interfere with each other in white-light?

Profile image of rishav kumar
12 Years agoGrade 9
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Profile image of Saurabh Koranglekar
6 Years ago
Dear student

At any instant in time, the light of different wavelengths can be said to interfere. However, because of the extreme frequencies of optical light, any cross-interference will get time-averaged away very quickly unless the two waves are very close in frequency

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