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What is the change from intensity as proportional to intensity as an actual value?

April 26, 2017actual intensity proportional value

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What is the change from intensity as proportional to intensity as an actual value?

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See above question. Here we’re mostly interested in the relative intensity, i.e. the interference pattern, so we just write , rather than carry around a bunch of not-so-relevant proportionality constants.