For long I've been thinking about this issue, but ended up with nothing :
Suppose you have a point source S1 sending a spherical wave in space of equation
ϕ=A0rsin(kr−ωt)
One may say that two sources will produce double the power, so double the intensity.
Another may say that the two waves, superposing in phase, will produce double the amplitude so four times the initial intensity.
Which one is correct? It is said that the second answer is the right one in the case of interference and that the extra energy comes from dark fringes, but here there are no dark or bright fringes; the two waves superpose constructively everywhere.
Please help.
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