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ISBN: 9780134051802

Author: Walker

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 28, Problem 38PCE

Submarine Saver A naval engineer is testing an nonreflective coating for submarines that would help them avoid detection by producing destructive interference for sonar waves that have a frequency of 512 Hz and travel at 1480 m/s. If there is a phase change for waves reflected from both the top and bottom surfaces of the coating what is the minimum thickness of the coating? For sonar waves let n= 1 00 and n_coating= 13 5.

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