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Chris Frisella
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Does it cancel it, or just create an equilibrium of forces upon a point(s)?
Example: If you had a string and you sent a wave down one end, and the opposite wave from the other, once they meet there will be an instant when the string is flat as if there had never been waves introduced. But, if you were to analyze the fibers and molecules of the string at the point of the interference, would you find that they were under more "stress" (or just more energized) than a string without any waves in it, or does the energy actually cancel at that moment leaving the string stress/energy free and just as it was before the waves were presented?
Example: If you had a string and you sent a wave down one end, and the opposite wave from the other, once they meet there will be an instant when the string is flat as if there had never been waves introduced. But, if you were to analyze the fibers and molecules of the string at the point of the interference, would you find that they were under more "stress" (or just more energized) than a string without any waves in it, or does the energy actually cancel at that moment leaving the string stress/energy free and just as it was before the waves were presented?