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Explaining How Light Bends in Explain how light bends during diffraction

Answer 1

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Explanation:

(a)(Refraction is the bending of light. It also happens with sound, water and other waves. )Optical effects resulting from diffraction are produced through the interference of light waves. To visualize this, imagine light waves as water waves. If water waves were incident upon a float residing on the water surface, the float would bounce up and down in response to the incident waves, producing waves of its own. As these waves spread outward in all directions from the float, they interact with other water waves. If the crests of two waves combine, an amplified wave is produced (constructive interference). However, if a crest of one wave and a trough of another wave combine, they cancel each other out to produce no vertical displacement (destructive interference).

(b)

Diffraction is the slight bending of light as it passes around the edge of an object. The amount of bending depends on the relative size of the wavelength of light to the size of the opening. If the opening is much larger than the light's wavelength, the bending will be almost unnoticeable. However, if the two are closer in size or equal, the amount of bending is considerable, and easily seen with the naked eye.

Answer 2

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Explanation: light waves against itself, which leads to internal interference of different wave component Which is also referred to as diffraction.

Diffraction causes beam of light to slowly spread out as it travels, so that some of the light will bend away from a straight line motion of the main part of the wave