Given informations:
(a) What is the time-averaged intensites of I1 and I2 of two plane waves?
Time average of any function f(t) an be given by
Now, let us first see the expression for the intensity I in general from the electric field E which is given by
Then the time averaged intensity is given by
Now, the time-averaged intensity I1 is given by
Similarlly, the time-averaged intensity I2 is given by
(b) Expression for the resultant field Etot is given by
Expression for the resultant intensity Itotal is given by
Now, the expression for the time-averaged resultant intensity is given by
Now we only need to find 2E1E2 as shown below
Now, its time average can be given as
Therefore,
d)
Now,
c)
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