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Can light generate propulsion?
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Basic question about Scattering and understanding colors
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Intuition for Rayleigh Scattering
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1 light year of mirror reflections?
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Maximum light intensity underwater during seasons?
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Solar panels vs reflecting surface?
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Hi, how to find the magnitude of a rotating vector?
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Can a Rotating Coherent Laser Beam Create a Persistent Light Dot for Holography?
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How Can Light Transmission and Reflection Exceed 100% in an Optics Experiment?
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Fresnel reflection coefficient for Second Harmonic Generation (SHG)
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Drop in power in a directed microwave beam?
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Does Destructive Interference Cancel Energy?
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Circularly polarized light through a polarimeter
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How Can We Measure the Speed of Light Over a Long Distance?
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Logarithmic scale for the Laser Intensity.
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X-ray emission from a klystron tube
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How can I correlate the light intensity and energy?
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Laser beam in oil/water, why is it easier to see beam in oil
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Maximum angle of acceptance - optical fibre
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Intuitive reasoning for frequency remaining constant during refraction
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Why does Lightning create Bright Bands on a Camera?
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Why do convex lenses magnify, and why don't concave lenses?
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Where do photons *Actually* come from?
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Why my mirror does not reflect converging light?
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Resolution when not diffraction limited
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Which properties of photons carry info on size,width,height?
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When I lit a laser ray for 10 seconds from a distant planet
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How mirror/camera/tv work without human eye like system?
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Energy fighting in combat flight sims
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Class Making a T.E.A. Laser-- we have questions....
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Absolute Relativity (who needs virtual photons anyhow?)
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Creating a Holographic Projecting Lens: Ideas and Procedures
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Change in energy as light passes through air/water
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What is the resolution of light?
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Why Does Light Penetrate to a Certain Depth?
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What´s the optical effect happening in this picture?
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Penetration depth of a microwave
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Could the speed of light be different in different universes?
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Understanding Photon Interference: A Look at Wavelength and Molecule Distance
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Is it possible to create artificial lightning?
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Thick Lens focal length and surface facing the object
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Practical scenario: NIR laser, black light marker and lamp.
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Infrared Light passing though Atmpshere
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Do the Relative Permittivity and Refractive Index of Water Match Up?
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White light thru prism: Why aren't separated colors actually mixed?
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Is interstellar travel impossible due to kinetic energy magnitude?
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Understanding Starlight: White Light, Double Slit Experiment, and Color Emission
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Mirror Plane Motor & 5000+ RPM: What Image?
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Planck time at the speed of light
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Can amplifiers boost radio waves for stronger signal?
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Mass of a Photon: Rest & Moving Mass
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Please explain this laser phenomena
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Understanding Fraunhoffer Diffraction: The Role of Lenses Explained
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Lens aligning various angle of incidence light striking it?
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Lighter equals faster acceleration
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Understanding the Energy of a Photon: A Closer Look at the Underlying Formula
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Any sunlight band pass filter for 400-700nm of EM Spectrum?
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Showing light to be a particle question
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How does Radiance change with a parabolic reflector?
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Understanding the Effects of Distance on Light Intensity
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Is greenhouse interior much cooler if reflective inside?
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How is Circularly polarized light changed upon refraction?
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Is a Photon the Smallest Particle Known?
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FLP: Derivation of reflection coefficient
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Photon size and classical fields
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Proving to someone the speed of light is real
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Reflection vs absorption and emission
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Polarization Filters: What are They & Where to Learn More
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Why does the two concave mirror illusion looks realistic wh
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Photonic crystals as metamaterials
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Maximizing Telescope Sensitivity: The Importance of Mirror Size
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Can light escape the medium when total internal reflection occurs?
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Are superconductors perfect reflectors?
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Can light sails really power starships?
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An interesting phenomena with light I experienced
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Phase and Phase difference......Can somebody enlighten me?
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What Can a Mobile Phone Camera Lens Reveal That the Naked Eye Can't?
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Image of a virtual object by a plane mirror
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Math in the thin lens equation
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A System with Velocity More than Speed of the Light
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Ray transformation of a 3d lens?
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Simple Optics Q: Green Filter + Blue Light = ??
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Do soap bubbles reflect sound?
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Do Photons from one star affect other stars?
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Diffraction - Amplitude and Phase
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Speed of light; source; frame of reference
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How can I create an adjustable liquid lens system for windows?
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Can Light Affect Spacetime without Being Affected?
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A question about the light spectrum
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Why does light reflect at exactly 180 degrees?
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Proof of image formation property of spherical mirrors
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Does increasing kVp in x-ray production increase the number of x-ray photons?
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Forming an Image with a Convex Lens
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Is Light Truly Waves or Particles?
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Deriving Laser Intensity proportional to N Molecules
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