Do noise-cancelling headphones use spatial or temporal interference?

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Do noise-cancelling headphones use spatial or temporal interference?

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The Attempt at a Solution

They use spatial interference, right? Temporal interference would cause beats which is not noise-cancelling.

 

[berkeman]

Homework Statement

Do noise-cancelling headphones use spatial or temporal interference?

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The Attempt at a Solution

They use spatial interference, right? Temporal interference would cause beats which is not noise-cancelling.

Could you please provide definitions for those two kinds of interference? And maybe give some examples of where they occur? They are equivalent in some situations, and you need to think about how headphones modify the sound sensing environment...