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  2. Phase (waves) - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, a phase reversal or phase inversion implies a 180-degree phase shift. [ 2 ] When the phase difference φ ( t ) {\displaystyle \varphi (t)} is a quarter of turn (a right angle, +90° = π/2 or −90° = 270° = −π/2 = 3π/2 ), sinusoidal signals are sometimes said to be in quadrature , e.g., in-phase and quadrature components of a ...

  3. Fresnel equations - Wikipedia

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    The phase shift of the reflected wave on total internal reflection can similarly be obtained from the phase angles of r p and r s (whose magnitudes are unity in this case). These phase shifts are different for s and p waves, which is the well-known principle by which total internal reflection is used to effect polarization transformations.

  4. Optical path length - Wikipedia

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    An electromagnetic wave propagating along a path C has the phase shift over C as if it was propagating a path in a vacuum, length of which, is equal to the optical path length of C. Thus, if a wave is traveling through several different media, then the optical path length of each medium can be added to find the total optical path length. The ...

  5. Electrical length - Wikipedia

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    The length of a sinusoidal wave is commonly expressed as an angle, in units of degrees (with 360° in a wavelength) or radians (with 2π radians in a wavelength). So alternately the electrical length can be expressed as an angle which is the phase shift of the wave between the ends of the conductor [1] [3] [5]

  6. Total internal reflection - Wikipedia

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    The phase shift turns out to be an advance, which grows as the incidence angle increases beyond the critical angle, but which depends on the polarization of the incident wave. In equations ( 5 ), ( 7 ), ( 8 ), ( 10 ), and ( 11 ), we advance the phase by the angle ϕ if we replace ωt by ωt + ϕ (that is, if we replace − ωt by − ωt − ϕ ...

  7. Instantaneous phase and frequency - Wikipedia

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    Instantaneous phase and frequency are important concepts in signal processing that occur in the context of the representation and analysis of time-varying functions. [1] The instantaneous phase (also known as local phase or simply phase ) of a complex-valued function s ( t ), is the real-valued function:

  8. In-phase and quadrature components - Wikipedia

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    Similarly in trigonometry, the angle sum identity expresses: sin(x + φ) = sin(x) cos(φ) + sin(x + π /2) sin(φ). And in functional analysis, when x is a linear function of some variable, such as time, these components are sinusoids, and they are orthogonal functions. A phase-shift of x → x + π /2 changes the identity to:

  9. Butler matrix - Wikipedia

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    Using an intermediate value of phase shift between elements will produce a beam at some angle intermediate between these two extremes. [28] In a Butler matrix, the phase shift of each beam is made ϕ = ( 2 k − 1 ) π n , {\displaystyle \phi ={\frac {(2k-1)\pi }{n}}\ ,}