EM Waves Energy Loss

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Where does the energy go when two photons interfere destructively at a point on a screen in Young's double slit experiment ?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 03 '13 at 12:43

Each photon leaves its energy in the molecules of the screen. Destructive interference observed at the line x=1mm for example , means that the probability of finding a photon at x=1 is close to zero. Instead, the photon has very high probabiliy of depositing its energy at the construcive interference fringe.

EM Waves Energy Loss

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