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Not sure if this should have gone in help but here goes.
I'm doing some background reading into the subject covered by my final year project for my degree. In particular I'm trying to get a grip on the topic of band gaps (acoustic to be exact but I'm looking generally at the moment).
Although I understand what a band gap is in basic terms (a gap in allowed frequency or energy levels), I've found it very hard to find a simple explanation to help me understand the cause of this effect. I'm not as good as I should be at decyphering the mysterious physics language of Jargon .
I know the effect is caused by a regular array of wave scatterers but how this produces the effect still eludes me. Is it simple interference or something more complex and how would it produce such a pronounced gap?
I hope that was clear at that someone might be able to explain something complicated to a dunce like me I have a feeling my project hinges on it
Thanks
I'm doing some background reading into the subject covered by my final year project for my degree. In particular I'm trying to get a grip on the topic of band gaps (acoustic to be exact but I'm looking generally at the moment).
Although I understand what a band gap is in basic terms (a gap in allowed frequency or energy levels), I've found it very hard to find a simple explanation to help me understand the cause of this effect. I'm not as good as I should be at decyphering the mysterious physics language of Jargon .
I know the effect is caused by a regular array of wave scatterers but how this produces the effect still eludes me. Is it simple interference or something more complex and how would it produce such a pronounced gap?
I hope that was clear at that someone might be able to explain something complicated to a dunce like me I have a feeling my project hinges on it
Thanks