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Originally Posted by athribiristan
Ok, sorry it took so long to get back about this. I had to think for a while about how best to explain it. We'll use the visible light spectrum for this example because we have all had this experience, or at least most of us. Imagine you are under water looking up at the surface. You can easily see that the water diffuses the light waves coming from above. Now imagine a wave moving across the surface of the water. You would see that the light is diffused/refracted differently depending on where it strikes the water, or where the two waves intersect.....interference.
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Thanks for the response! I appreciate it.
Your example is
not an example of interference. Your example demonstrates how changing the incident angle of light changes the light wave's angle of
refraction.
Wave
interference results when two (or more) waves are superimposed, resulting in a
single wave with a new amplitude (depending on how the two original waves were added).