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High School If light cannot bend, then how magnify glass works?

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Graduate Radio wave propagation in water

  • sirch
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Graduate Double slit - why vertical strips?

  • Nick.
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Graduate Two foci on rectilinear congruence of light rays

  • center o bass
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High School Constructing a Hollow Glass Prism for Science Experiment

  • croslali arno
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Undergrad Light year long stick question

  • iDimension
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High School Wireless power and lighting ball

  • Ajbot
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High School What is the reflection angle of a golf ball after being struck by a putter?

  • lovethepirk
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High School Compound Microscope, Ray Diagram Mistakes.

  • Meet Vora
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High School Calculating Camera Lens Diameter with a Ruler

  • walter1998
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High School How do standing waves form if original and reflected waves don't overlap?

  • gracy
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Undergrad Why can't X-Rays travel through water?

  • nst.john
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High School Why is the color white not a mirror?

  • Loanzac
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High School Do stars emit the same electromagnetic spectrum?

  • Vphysics2013
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Graduate Photon detector count rate from sunlight in green spectrum

  • Xyius
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Graduate Natural Light and Linear Polarizer

  • Frank Einstein
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Undergrad Do multiple lens cameras refract light differently to a single lens ones?

  • ak33m98
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Graduate 4 slit interference, unequal separation

  • Monarch
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Graduate Estimating irradiance on a square planar surface

  • vst98
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Graduate Understanding Stability Conditions for Unsymmetric Optical Resonators

  • hideelo
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High School Why Do Lights Appear to Shine?

  • VoidChimera
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Undergrad Diffraction gratings and angular separation

  • Grubstank
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Undergrad Light Intensity Model: Showing Minimal Difference at Off Point

  • S.1.B
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Graduate Why does recombination in PN junctions release photons?

  • V0ODO0CH1LD
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Graduate Classical index of refraction theory

  • center o bass
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Graduate Interference of Light - Variations in Intensity

  • mattmt
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Undergrad What does it mean to change the polarization of a laser beam

  • mrspock
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Graduate Photometric and Radiometric measurement concepts

  • Aditya Mittal
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Graduate Why does my reflection formula give [0,0,1] instead of [0,0,-1]?

  • Xyius
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Undergrad Can UV LEDs excite phosphor coatings for full-spectrum plant growth lighting?

  • Brainiac
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High School Can dispersion of light take place through lens?

  • aditya ver.2.0
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Undergrad Why do LEDs continue to emit light?

  • jaydnul
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Graduate Why is radiance defined per projected area normal to the beam direction?

  • brightlint
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Undergrad How does the power of a lens affect its ability to focus light?

  • Meron35
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Graduate Lightweight Tubular Frame: Can it Float?

  • Rooler
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Graduate Movement and Properties of Light

  • member 529879
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Graduate Fourier Optics: Why Does a Lens Perform a Fourier Transform?

  • X-Kirk
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High School Snell's Law: From n sin theta to n1sintheta1 = n2sintheta2

  • mauifq
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Graduate Optics: Design of Beamsplitter Ge on KBr substrate

  • SupaVillain
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Graduate Behaviour of light thru a glass rod 'end to end'

  • marcophys
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Undergrad Why does light reflect off glass cracks if refractive indices are equal?

  • Hypatio
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Best laser pointer for optics lab?

  • Dorea
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Undergrad Why do Fresnel rings appear in laser beam experiments?

  • ppoonamk
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Graduate Reconstructing an image out of a white surface light information.

  • Ovden151
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Graduate Quantum mechanism of light reflection and color

  • rwooduk
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Graduate X-ray to Microwave fluorescence

  • TESL@
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High School Can Our Eyes See Objects in the Nanoscale?

  • kyphysics
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Graduate Optics - Obtaining structure of an object using a laser

  • The_Foetus
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Undergrad Double Slit Diffraction Problem

  • spitonem
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Graduate Deriving AC - A'C = 2(a-y)cos(θm) for waveguide rays

  • loginorsinup
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Any good softwares for drawing optical schematics?

  • ppoonamk
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High School Using solar cell as a power laser meter

  • DDnoob
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Graduate Difference between spin and helicity for a photon

  • nomadreid
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Graduate Refraction-Speed difference at different wavelengths

  • u0362565
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Undergrad Is refractive index on each side of the parallelepiped the same?

  • Dorea
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Undergrad How does light heat air if light is a wave?

  • Tom1996
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Undergrad Why is light attenuation not linear?

  • DocMorris
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Graduate Laser focal point manipulation

  • Stanley514
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Undergrad Can microwaves be partially reflected like light is?

  • Xtensity
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Undergrad How is the focal length of an objective calculated?

  • ppoonamk
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Graduate Do photons pass through each other?

  • Godparicle
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Undergrad Can light travel as a longitudinal wave?

  • k9b4
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Graduate What does negative contrast look like?

  • DemoniWaari
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Graduate Calculating the Frequency of White Light

  • nst.john
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Graduate Why do we aim for Single Mode waveguides?

  • Fixar Frazze
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High School Measuring the Wavelength of Light

  • dr naz chuhan
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High School Four-Level Laser System: Why Less Energy?

  • ScienceKitten
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Undergrad Can't find any micrograph for glass

  • JezMoulton
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Graduate Polarization state conventions

  • leroyjenkens
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Undergrad Light ray simulator? Snell's law/refraction

  • Tom Holly
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High School Prism Experiment: Seeing a Wide Spectrum of Light?

  • Prashasti
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Undergrad Fresnel Equations and Snells Law

  • girlinphysics
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Graduate Jones Vector of Linear Polarization

  • iScience
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Graduate How do charges in a wall cancel out incoming electromagnetic waves?

  • k9b4
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Undergrad Asking for guidance on the physics of light spectrum

  • Maher Fareed
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High School Does light continue to travel through space after its source is removed?

  • k9b4
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Graduate Confusion regarding Standing Waves and Reflection resulting in Phase Change

  • Hereformore
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Graduate Assigning a Size to Particles and Strings: From Planck Scale to the Universe

  • nomadreid
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Undergrad How can we make invisible lights visible?

  • Catch22meifucan
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Undergrad Can you measure gas temperature with an infrared laser?

  • lonewolf219
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Graduate Relationship between elements and speed of light

  • Roodles01
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High School How do lightning conductors prevent lightning strikes?

  • Barclay
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Graduate How does light interference occur when EM radiation interacts with itself?

  • k9b4
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High School Why does a laser pointer spot have a shimmering grainy appearance?

  • thetexan
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High School Why can light go through some matter but not other matter?

  • k9b4
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High School Is there any difference between light from positive and negative charges?

  • k9b4
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Undergrad Is the Momentum of EM Radiation Influencing Electron Behavior?

  • k9b4
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High School Evaporation of water from non polar surfaces

  • William Jackson
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High School How does a plane mirror form an image of an object?

  • harivarshan
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Graduate Clarifying Coherent and Incoherent Sum of Plane Waves

  • ppoonamk
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Graduate Microscopy: Deconvolve the PSF and enhance resolution

  • eoghan
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High School Why does sunlight create better color effects than a flashlight?

  • Catch22meifucan
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Graduate Asymmetric transmission of Infrared

  • trendal
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Graduate Does the photon have an antiparticle?

  • aditya ver.2.0
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Undergrad Microscope magnification with camera

  • Choisai
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Graduate Why do more slits increase peak intensity in diffraction?

  • Hereformore
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Undergrad Light coming straight from an object not affected by Polarizer?

  • Hereformore
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Graduate What is an optical force in waveguide resonators?

  • gonegahgah
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Undergrad Dispersion of light through a prism and block, changing the incident angle

  • mayer
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Undergrad Why does a reflected wave reach 2A amplitude at a free end?

  • Rishavutkarsh
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