How do noise cancelling headphones actually work?

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How do noise cancelling headphones actually work?

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When two waves collide, their peaks with either add together or cancel out depending on their phase. Noise cancelling takes the audio of the surrounding from the microphones and inverts the waves and plays it back so it cancel out the noise.

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