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High School Isn't a wave what something does and not what something is?

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Graduate Single photon and double slit experiment

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High School If a car travels at light speed, does light come from its headlights?

  • gary350
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Undergrad Michelson interferometer dimensions

  • malak
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Undergrad Why adding more polarized filters results in more light passing?

  • flyguille
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Undergrad How do we know that light that comes from the stars is in past?

  • shipiz
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Graduate Energy loss and evanescent waves in total internal reflection

  • tade
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Graduate Can Crystal Symmetry Explain the Lack of Optical Activity in Quartz?

  • Paul Colby
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High School How many batteries does it take to light this bulb up?

  • physicsboi12
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Undergrad I have problem with a mirror on Michelson interferometer

  • Nikola0123
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Undergrad What will stop me from going at the speed of light?

  • Sas_TP123
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Undergrad Real image appears in front of the mirror?

  • Fizzizist
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Undergrad Simulate other lenses with Time of Flight (ToF) camera

  • aghbar
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Undergrad Modes of Optical Fiber propagation

  • Super Sujan
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Undergrad 3rd Order Aberrations from Paraxial Rays?

  • Twigg
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Graduate Visible light communication modulation schemes?

  • sherzadakhan
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Graduate Relating phasors, complex exponentials and I&Q representations

  • Natalie Johnson
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Graduate Does Phase Change on Reflection Violate Stokes Relation?

  • tanaygupta2000
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High School Do Shadows from Multiple Sticks in a Circle Point in the Same Direction?

  • Odal
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Where can I get some hot mirror (near) infrared mirror) film

  • dularaf
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Graduate Can a photon travel slow enough to be seen by the naked eye

  • me-Lights
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Undergrad How Can I Accurately Fit an Airy Distribution Over Noisy Resonance Data?

  • MatthijsRog
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Undergrad Why does the angle between two targets decrease with distance?

  • Odal
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Graduate Difference between photon interactions in absorption-induced emission and reflection

  • Super Sujan
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Graduate Deriving reflection formula from refraction by substituting negative refractive index

  • Biker
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Undergrad Colored Light or Colored Object?

  • Odal
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Undergrad Apply Sign Conventions in Optics Problems Using Lens and Mirror Equations?

  • jishnu
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Undergrad After a lightning bolt, what happens to the plasma?

  • mk9898
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Undergrad Possible to make speckles without a Laser?

  • darthw
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Graduate Why no constructive interference between two 1000 Hz speakers

  • Rasmus Nielsen
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High School What can I do with an infrared camera?

  • Taulant Sholla
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High School How is light reflected or transmitted through 3D objects?

  • Georges
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Graduate Does a photon burst have a finite duration and wavelength count?

  • Averyuniquename
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Undergrad Fringes observed between the fingers

  • sweet springs
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Undergrad Young's double slit: why fringes gets dimmer and inconsistent?

  • Simon George
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Graduate Imaging optics and lowest possible angle video projection?

  • mudicokula
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Graduate Light entering a shadow by diffraction at a screen edge

  • Lucw
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Graduate Intensity as light passes through two quarter-wave plates?

  • Mulz
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Graduate When a photon is created, it instantly achieves the speed of light -- How?

  • zuz
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Undergrad Does light refraction follow the path of least time?

  • Buckethead
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Undergrad Light waves through polarizers: transverse or longitudinal?

  • Rtenhoor
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High School Can a massless object reach light speed?

  • Doubleclick
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Graduate Infinitesimal, Snell's law, and ray tracing

  • ytht100
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Undergrad Lens Math for a Semicircle and Vesica Piscis?

  • shintashi
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High School Obtaining 700nm light wavelength

  • FredFlintstone
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Undergrad Is the index of refraction constant for a given medium?

  • Phys12
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Undergrad Overlaying light beams by one replacing the other where they intersect

  • wosoka
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Graduate Why reflected sunspot grows nonlinearly with distance on 2.5cm mirror

  • bob012345
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Insights Fabry-Perot and Michelson Interferometry: A Fundamental Approach - Comments

  • Charles Link
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Undergrad Adsorption of a evanescent waves

  • maurice74
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Graduate Is there any phenomenon capable of replacing light?

  • Boltzman Oscillation
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Undergrad Why do metals and glass both produce mirror images despite different conductivities?

  • DaTario
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Graduate Refraction of Ocean waves: Wide Headland vs Narrow

  • Timtam
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Graduate What's the superposition principle for group action?

  • Jianbing_Shao
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Undergrad Changing the focal plane of a video projection?

  • wosoka
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Undergrad Do Lights Move at the Same Speed?

  • Kaleb OLeary
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High School Why parts of the laser ray seem brighter than other parts

  • titansarus
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Graduate What fraction of long wavelength EM gets through a small hole?

  • Buzz Bloom
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Graduate 3D subsurface laser engraving for translucent minerals?

  • Spin Operator
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Graduate Rotating mirror system for shifting a beam?

  • wosoka
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Undergrad In a rifle scope, why is the reticle at the focal point?

  • Shadow89
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Undergrad Velocity in polar coordinates (again)

  • tiago23
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Undergrad Collimated light from red dot scopes?

  • Shadow89
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Graduate Is the Speed of Light Limited by the Properties of Matter?

  • Jeffrey phalen
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Undergrad Does Hyugen's principle apply in three dimensions?

  • Tom79Tom
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High School Different size slits in Young's double slit experiment

  • Dima Petrukhin
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Graduate Do photons form images everywhere in a room before detection?

  • waves and change
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Graduate Laser Gravity: Can a Laser Pull Gently?

  • fishin_kitten
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Undergrad Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light

  • sAzt71
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Graduate Why the speed of light squared?

  • johngalt47
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Graduate Conservation of energy of a perfectly decoherent laser

  • K1nem4t1cs
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Graduate Elliptical polarization analysis with linear polarizer

  • Pattarasak
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High School How to create diffraction gratings from negative film

  • Paddyster
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Graduate Was the ultraviolet catastrophe really a physical problem?

  • fox26
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Undergrad Does 1064nm light have the same properties regardless of laser source?

  • Dip It In
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Graduate Is there free software for simulating near field diffraction

  • Christofer Br
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Graduate Propagation of light in a vacuum

  • slow
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Graduate Is the Ideal Lens Calculation Patentable?

  • kokes
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Undergrad Why doesn't sunlight have infinite energy?

  • another_dude
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Undergrad Window blinds - colour depends on window open/closed

  • Thunderfox
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Undergrad Lightbulb and mini hydro generator

  • samirgaliz
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Undergrad Why does an owl's eye appear to focus light differently?

  • cronnin
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High School Simple microscope and convex lens

  • Hydrous Caperilla
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Graduate Why amplitude and power reflection coefficients differ at wave interfaces

  • dyn
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High School Can light be split by colour accurately?

  • cwinhall
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Graduate Relationship between interference and arm length in MZI

  • boxfullofvacuumtubes
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Graduate Faster than the speed of light (pulling on a string)?

  • Ozs
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Undergrad Does a particle accelerator help solve gravity for spaceflight?

  • Nelli
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Undergrad Can a Laser Beam be Repeated Across Multiple Points?

  • rnbguy
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Graduate Why Raman spectroscope doesn't use 532nm laser ?.

  • NEETZGr8
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High School Why don't cloud shadows over the sea have a visible penumbra?

  • goran d
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High School Young's Double slit experiment with different slit sizes

  • PumpkinCougar95
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Undergrad How Do Different Diffraction Grating Designs Affect Analysis Results?

  • Paddyster
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Undergrad How does a reflection grating work as a diffraction source?

  • Sheldon11
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Graduate Bending a laser beam 1 nanometer over 100-1000 metres

  • ZMacZ
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Undergrad Why doesn't white light interfere if it contains all wavelengths?

  • RobertDSmeets
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Undergrad On the logical-ness of the principle of superposition

  • RubinLicht
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Graduate Why do TE/TM reflection coefficients use only parallel field components?

  • Dimani4
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Undergrad Principal plane of a thin lens

  • HastiM
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Undergrad Optics question: I need parallel illumination for a Contact Image Sensor (CIS)

  • rich333
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