The professor returns the apparatus to the original setting. She then adjusts the speakers again. All of
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The professor returns the apparatus to the original setting. She then adjusts the speakers again. All of the students who had heard nothing originally now hear a loud tone, while you and the others who had originally heard the loud tone hear nothing. What did the professor do?
(a) She turned off the oscillator.
(b) She turned down the volume of the speakers.
(c) She changed the phase relationship of the speakers.
(d) She disconnected one speaker.
Interference occurs with not only light waves but also all frequencies of electromagnetic waves and all other types of waves, such as sound and water waves. Suppose that your physics professor sets up two sound speakers in the front of your classroom and uses an electronic oscillator to produce sound waves of a single frequency. When she turns the oscillator on (take this to be its original setting), you and many students hear a loud tone while other students hear nothing. (The speed of sound in air is 340 m/s.)
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University Physics with Modern Physics
ISBN: 978-0133977981
14th edition
Authors: Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman