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How Does Using Different Active Mediums Affect Laser Output?
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Can a stable gas be ionized by concentrated light?
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Lens Formula Confusion: Convex Lens, Cartesian Sign Conv.
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Transmitting Information faster than light?
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Optics - Spectacles lens Power Estimation
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Is Light considered Matter? Questions on energy and states of matter.
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Trillion FPS camera developed at MIT camera can 'watch' the movement of light
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Lateral Inversion of Images Formed by Convex & Concave Lenses
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Coherency matrix of partially polarized light incomplete?
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7th grader needs help with speed of light and infinite mass
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Limits of information transfer through light and sound
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Single-slit diffraction intensity
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Why light does not travel in wires?
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How many photons are reflecting?
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Turn off the Higg's field and travel at the speed of light?
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Understanding Energy Conservation in Laser Operation
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Help explain an optical effect
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Lines Appear When Staring at Bright Lights - What's the Explanation?
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Sun's light beam and diffraction grating
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Infrared as watermark that can be detected by camera even in daylight
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Are Polaroid headlights the solution to reducing night-time road accidents?
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Light & Sound Waves: Thermal Energy & Frequency
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Frequency of Sound and Light waves
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Homopolar Motor Limiting factor angular velocity
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What exactly is the Ultraviolet Catastrophe?
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Figuring out what image distance (lens and mirror) formula to use?
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How do unpolarized sunglasses reduce brightness?
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Question about stars and light after a trip to the Hayden Planetarium
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Calculating the magnitude of displacement
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Expanding Laser Beams with Focusing Lenses: Possibilities and Limitations
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Why do light form an interference pattern when passing through only one slit?
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Total Internal Reflection and snell's law
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What causes the angular fringes in laser light pictures?
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Why Is It Called the Lens Maker Equation?
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Will light be trapped in a room full of mirrors?
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Dynamic light scattering laplace inversion
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Does it need light speed or not
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Xray refraction and UV refraction border?
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How can I expand my laser beam without using water?
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Lightning Questions: Answers to Elusive Mysteries
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At the subatomic level, how does reflection and refraction occur?
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Standard optical component symbols?
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Lightning Strikes: Does it Create an EMP?
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Unveiling the Versatility of Photons: From the Universe to Our Everyday Life"
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Will, Red, Green and blue lasers wen crossed create the spectrum we crossed ?
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Optics question-Materials for vacuum chamber viewing ports
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Light speed and cosmological constant
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Degree of coherence of light from a red semiconductor laser
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Long vs Short light wavelength absorption
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Can Laser-Driven Logic Gates Function Like NOR Gates Using Diffraction Patterns?
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Optics/ the eye/ near, far-sightedness
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Real vs. Virtual Photons: A Comparison
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Clarification regarding rolling cylinder with CG slightly above
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What is more beneficial: light as a wave or light as a particle?
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Splitting a light beam into opposite circular polarizations?
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Does total internal reflection only occur with electromagnetic waves?
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Does the focal length of a concave lens change in a different medium?
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Images formed by cylindrical lens
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Thomson scattering and unpolarized light
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Is it possible to store light for later use?
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The color of an apple (light absorption and emission)
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Interactions between Photons and Atoms in the Electromagnetic Spectrum
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Optical Drive Physics: Data Storage & Reflection
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Gravitational lensing due to earth
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Lightning/Sparks physics equation
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Infrared Gas Analyzer: How to Accurately Measure Concentration
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External Cavity Laser: Ultra Narrow Line Width
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Line of Polarizers Reflection Question
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Slow Light: Can Light Gain Mass and Accelerate?
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Why does infrared light produce more heat than visible light?
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Thought Expirement: Light In a Mirrored box
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Fiber Optic Y Connection Question
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Do i have the ability to see in ultraviolet?
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Optical Source Modulation with a Chopper
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Intensity of elliptically polarized light
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Smallest diameter collimated laser/optical beam?
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Sending communications on light waves
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Speed of light and bending time
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Young's light interference experiment
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Earth Mass Increasing? Photons and Photosynthesis making more matter on earth?
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Can light travel faster than itself?
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Need help with contraconcave mirrors
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Direct photons in one direction Help?
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Does Time Influence the Speed of Light in Special Relativity?
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Diffraction Across a Knife Edge
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Does Fresnel reflection involves absorption of light?
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Light sky under primary rainbowwhy?
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Glass that has minimum reflection and absorption at 1550nm
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Create Stunning Optics Schemes with Our Software - Perfect for Academics
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Total Internal Reflection a doubt?
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What Happens When Snell's Law Is Exceeded?
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Is light what we think of as dark matter?
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Reflecting Gamma Rays w/ Electron Gas for Spacecraft
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Energy and Light: Is it All the Same?
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If light is a wave, what is waving?
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Vacuum Polarization: Dielectric Possibility?
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Can a Grounded Target Evade a Direct Lightning Strike with Sufficient Speed?
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Are photons necessary for an object to show colour?
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Where does light go when i turn off the.light
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Optics-Lenses - image outside the mirror?
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