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Schlieren Imaging / wave optics
Aug 29, 2014
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What is the relationship between numerical aperture and resolution in lenses?
Aug 29, 2014
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What is the minimum beam width achievable at 50GHz microwave frequency?
Aug 29, 2014
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Why we cannot see light from a conducting wire?
Aug 28, 2014
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Quick question on mirror and lens scenario
Aug 28, 2014
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Why Does Light Reflect and Refract When It Hits Glass?
Aug 28, 2014
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How can I go from high school level to understanding advanced optics?
Aug 26, 2014
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Atoms Absorbing Light & Emitting Photons: The Gas Experiment
Aug 26, 2014
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Light intensity and wave behavior of light
Aug 26, 2014
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Are Photons Particles or Waves in the Nature of Light?
Aug 26, 2014
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Capability of gas to absorb & emit photons
Aug 25, 2014
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Do I have the right understanding for a wavefront for sound and light?
Aug 25, 2014
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Relationship between light and sound
Aug 24, 2014
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Harnessing Radiation Pressure: The Potential of Solar Sails
Aug 22, 2014
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Does Increasing Light Wave Amplitude Mean More Photons?
Aug 21, 2014
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Effective refractive index when two transparent medium are joined in s
Aug 21, 2014
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Shortest distance light wave can travel?
Aug 21, 2014
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Is It Safe and Feasible to Create Plasma in a Microwave Using Helium Gas?
Aug 21, 2014
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What Causes the Formation of Plasma in a Microwave?
Aug 20, 2014
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Radio waves for two way communication?
Aug 20, 2014
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How does a lightning rod work?
Aug 14, 2014
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If density of object is slightly greater than density of fluid?
Aug 13, 2014
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Can a wire grid used for polarizing also cause diffraction?
Aug 10, 2014
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A question about the thrust of light
Aug 9, 2014
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The Mirror Question: What Changes in Physics?
Aug 8, 2014
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Projecting an image onto a mirror
Aug 8, 2014
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Gravitational Lensing: No Distortion of Sun Images Around Black Hole
Aug 7, 2014
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Optics: Lens for capturing light from parabolic reflector
Aug 7, 2014
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How to make laser energy consistent?
Aug 7, 2014
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Laser to determine effect of sucrose concentration on refractive index
Aug 6, 2014
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The Double Slit Experiment and the amplitude of light
Aug 3, 2014
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Can a Magnifying Glass and Prism Create an Ignitable Rainbow?
Aug 2, 2014
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Calculation of reflection coefficient
Aug 2, 2014
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Light released within a sphere with a perfectly opaque inner surface
Jul 30, 2014
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Why does a light blinking quickly average out as 'on' to us?
Jul 30, 2014
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Does White Light Really Exist as One Wave?
Jul 30, 2014
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Light -- why does it bend/refract?
Jul 29, 2014
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Speed of light in unusual materials
Jul 28, 2014
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What Causes Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Instead of Intra-Cloud Discharge?
Jul 26, 2014
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Tracing a laser pointer with IR camera
Jul 26, 2014
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Light converging inside the eye
Jul 26, 2014
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Width of a wire grid polarizer
Jul 25, 2014
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The Difference in Refraction Angles of Different Colored Light
Jul 25, 2014
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Snell's Law: Definition, Equations, Refractive Index & Critical Angle
Jul 24, 2014
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What are Nonlinear Optics - 2nd Order Processes
Jul 24, 2014
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How Does Nonlinear Optics Impact Light Propagation in Media?
Jul 24, 2014
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Understanding the Thin & Gaussian Lens Equations
Jul 24, 2014
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The meter, the second, and the speed of light
Jul 24, 2014
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Diffraction Definition & Common Examples
Jul 24, 2014
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Why Does Laser Light Bend in a Spring?
Jul 24, 2014
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Optics: how to make eye focus in distance?
Jul 23, 2014
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What is the maximum switching speed for electromagnet polarity?
Jul 23, 2014
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What is the working principle of wire grid polarizers?
Jul 22, 2014
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Optic microscopes. New illumination technic
Jul 22, 2014
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Refraction of Light: Does Color Change?
Jul 22, 2014
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Intensity and frequence of light
Jul 19, 2014
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AM Radio Interference: FAQs & Solutions
Jul 18, 2014
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Laser Beam - Divergence and Solid Angle
Jul 17, 2014
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Ultraviolette Catastrophy -Intensity causes melting of objects?
Jul 17, 2014
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Soft X-Rays: Causes & Energy Rates
Jul 16, 2014
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Ray diagrams, lenses and microscopes
Jul 16, 2014
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Optical tweezers for manipulating atoms together to form new structure
Jul 14, 2014
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Why does 'white light' from the Sun look yellow?
Jul 14, 2014
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Oscillating E Field Interpretation of Light
Jul 13, 2014
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Divergence angle of light exiting a nano-etched single mode fiber
Jul 13, 2014
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E&M simple polarizability question
Jul 12, 2014
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Inverse Problems in Scattering
Jul 12, 2014
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Oversampling and phase retrieval in Fraunhofer diffraction
Jul 10, 2014
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Poynting vector and intensity in scalar diffraction theory
Jul 9, 2014
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Understanding the Phase Shift Formula in Stimulated Brillouin Scattering
Jul 9, 2014
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Why Does Microwaving a Grape Produce Plasma?
Jul 8, 2014
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Why Does a Fresnel Lens Create an Upright Image in a Galilean Telescope Setup?
Jul 7, 2014
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Lasers: Power and wavelength dependence
Jul 5, 2014
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Understanding Light: Electric & Magnetic Propagation
Jul 3, 2014
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Lens to lens distance is not 2f in "4f system"
Jul 3, 2014
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A Descriptive Explanation of Photons required
Jul 3, 2014
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A square looks at light squared
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Light Absorption and Transmission
Jul 1, 2014
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What is the direction of the anode heel effect in a rotating anode x-ray tube?
Jun 30, 2014
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Is the Speed of Light Changing? Implications for Permittivity and Permeability.
Jun 29, 2014
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Why do manufacturers use a gas that emits UV light in fluorescent light bulbs?
Jun 28, 2014
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Relation between Hamiltonian of light ray and that of mechanics
Jun 27, 2014
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Help with Order of Magnitude Estimations and Dimensional Analysis
Jun 27, 2014
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Mirror Reflection: Why Does Object Look Smaller?
Jun 27, 2014
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Understanding single slit interference
Jun 23, 2014
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Lenses question -- Can lenses Magnify?
Jun 19, 2014
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How Can I Mathematically Represent the Polarization of a Laser Beam?
Jun 19, 2014
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Why does the thunder from lighting last much longer than the flash?
Jun 18, 2014
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Enhance Visibility with Metal Spray Coating for X-Ray Applications
Jun 16, 2014
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Why don't mirrors invert the image vertically?
Jun 16, 2014
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Focal Length of a Plano Convex Lens
Jun 15, 2014
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Light Plane Photography - Is my explanation correct?
Jun 14, 2014
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On the clockwise rotation of the reflection coefficient with frequency
Jun 13, 2014
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Mediums that only refract light
Jun 12, 2014
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Appearence of objects which do not reflect light
Jun 12, 2014
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Second focal point of a concave lens
Jun 12, 2014
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Why Does a Convex Lens Create a Flower-Like Light Pattern?
Jun 11, 2014
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Insulating box in a lightning storm
Jun 10, 2014
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Photon Direction: What Determines the Emission?
Jun 9, 2014
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How do laser interferometers measure distances greater than 1wavelengt
Jun 9, 2014
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