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  2. Envelope (waves) - Wikipedia

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    The envelope thus generalizes the concept of a constant amplitude into an instantaneous amplitude. The figure illustrates a modulated sine wave varying between an upper envelope and a lower envelope. The envelope function may be a function of time, space, angle, or indeed of any variable. Envelope for a modulated sine wave.

  3. Wave packet - Wikipedia

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    Since the integral of ρ t is constant while the width is becoming narrow at small times, this function approaches a delta function at t=0, = again only in the sense of distributions, so that () = for any test function f. The time-varying Gaussian is the propagation kernel for the diffusion equation and it obeys the convolution identity ...

  4. Gaussian function - Wikipedia

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    Mathematically, the derivatives of the Gaussian function can be represented using Hermite functions. For unit variance, the n-th derivative of the Gaussian is the Gaussian function itself multiplied by the n-th Hermite polynomial, up to scale. Consequently, Gaussian functions are also associated with the vacuum state in quantum field theory.

  5. White light interferometry - Wikipedia

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    Two slightly different algorithms are implemented for the calculation of the envelope maximum. The first algorithm is used to evaluate the envelope of the correlogram; the z-value is derived from the maximum. The second algorithm evaluates the phase in addition. With the automation interface (e.g. macros), either of the algorithms can be used ...

  6. Slowly varying envelope approximation - Wikipedia

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    The slowly varying envelope approximation is often used because the resulting equations are in many cases easier to solve than the original equations, reducing the order of—all or some of—the highest-order partial derivatives. But the validity of the assumptions which are made need to be justified.

  7. Bessel function - Wikipedia

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    Bessel functions describe the radial part of vibrations of a circular membrane.. Bessel functions, named after Friedrich Bessel who was the first to systematically study them in 1824, [1] are canonical solutions y(x) of Bessel's differential equation + + = for an arbitrary complex number, which represents the order of the Bessel function.

  8. Carbon snake - Wikipedia

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    A column of porous black graphite formed during the experiment. Carbon snake experiment. The carbon snake is a demonstration of the dehydration reaction of sugar by concentrated sulfuric acid. With concentrated sulfuric acid, granulated table sugar performs a degradation reaction which changes its form to a black solid-liquid mixture. [1]

  9. Double-slit experiment - Wikipedia

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    The experiment belongs to a general class of "double path" experiments, in which a wave is split into two separate waves (the wave is typically made of many photons and better referred to as a wave front, not to be confused with the wave properties of the individual photon) that later combine into a single wave.