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High School How Do Light, Reflection, and Images Work in Basic Optics?
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Undergrad Understanding Interference of Sound Experiment
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High School Young's Double Slit Experiment lab
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Graduate Questions about light(wave and dual nature)
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Undergrad Understanding TE & TM Waves: Physical Significance
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Undergrad Diffraction through circular apertures
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Undergrad Optical design for a tent camera obscura
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Graduate What is the maximum refractive index for lens numerical aperture?
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Graduate Which scatters light more: a sphere or a hemisphere?
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Graduate Dispersion and refractive indices
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High School Physics Experiment Involving Light - Ideas Please
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Graduate Is Directivity Affected by Cavity Length in Laser Beams?
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Undergrad Melting Lightbulb Filaments: What Voltage is Needed?
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Strange occurrence on office wall.
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Undergrad Sound Interference Experiment: Explaining Intensity Increase
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Graduate Understanding the Doppler Effect and Reflection in Motionless Media
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Graduate PHYSICAL explanation of light reflection by metals
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Undergrad How Do Soap Bubbles Display Vivid Colors Through Light Interference?
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Graduate Fiberooptic Laser Doppler Velocimeter
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Graduate SNR in dBV vs dBm - Insight Needed
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Undergrad How does photon react in reflection and refraction?
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High School Fresnel lens project with my dad
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Graduate Gravity and light: The curious case of a mobile mass and a hidden light source
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High School Why is magnitude g instead of vector g used in range projectile
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Undergrad Can a Polarizer Change the Polarization State of a Laser Beam?
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Graduate Energy conservation in identical destructive interference.
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Graduate Optimizing Tubular Optical Filter for Selective Photon Paths - Jim Adrian
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Graduate Confusion about the nature of Diffraction.
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Graduate Information about Beam Displacers
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Graduate Vectorial kinematic in cartesian and polar system/notanion
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Undergrad Collimating Sunlight: Can It Be Done?
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Graduate What Causes Peaks in Reflectance Graph of Polished Silicon Wafer?
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Undergrad Nodes and antinodes in stationary waves
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Undergrad Understanding Photons: Frequency, Energy & Wave Behaviour
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Undergrad Why light is not considered as a longitudinal wave?
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Graduate What Would Happen if High Light Density Hit Water?
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Graduate How to be sure that a He-Ne laser light is monochromatic
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Undergrad Why do speakers emit buzzing noises when receiving a text?
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Undergrad Coinciding of 2F and C in ray diagram of lenses
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Graduate Attract Lightning: Can You Use an Electro-Magnet?
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High School Measuring the speed of light with chocolate and a microwave oven
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Graduate Optics question: converging lens with virtual object
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Undergrad What happen when monochromatic light irradiated on reflective grating
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High School What Causes Refraction in Different Media?
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Undergrad Why does a change in impedance cause reflection?
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Graduate Resolution limit of delay line interferometer
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Graduate Nonlinear Optics Books: Recommendations for Robert Boyd Style
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Graduate Choosing the Best Prism for UV Separation in Solar Radiation - Thesis Guide
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High School Why does an object appear darker when wet?.
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Undergrad Regarding modeling of light bulb circuit
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High School Mysterious Magnifying Effect Observed at Supermarket
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Undergrad Clarifying the Relationship between Convex Mirrors and Image Distance
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High School Neon Lamp Polarity Measurement
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Undergrad Reflections on a thin metal layer?
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Graduate Optical path length change due to absorption
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Graduate The quality factor of cavity resonator
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Undergrad Refractive index- will it travel back along the same way?
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Undergrad Microwaves and Interference problem
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Undergrad Why Do Wet Clothes Appear Darker?
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Graduate Need some help trying to understand the Michelson interferometer
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Graduate Understanding Refractive Phase Differences in Electromagnetic Waves
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High School Light From Flashlight: Does It Reach Space?
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Undergrad Doppler effect and Speed of light
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Graduate Optical Fiber Attenuation for 1550nm FBG Sensor
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Graduate Velocity of red light vs. blue light in water - qualitative reasoning?
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High School Light's Ability to Move Matter: Explained
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Graduate Confirming the pulse-bandwidth-product for fs laser pulses
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Undergrad How Can I Improve My Laser Detection Software for Camera-Equipped Computers?
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Undergrad Light takes the path of most time elapsed?
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Undergrad How can diffraction occur with gap smaller than the wavelength?
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Undergrad Compton scattering is inelastic?
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Graduate The Wavelength of a Photon: A Mathematical Representation or a Physical Reality?
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Undergrad Teaching about light before quantum mechanics
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Undergrad What factors affect the refractive index of a medium?
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Undergrad How Many Images Does a Zone Plate Produce with an Object in Front?
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Graduate How does the speed of light determine the size of material bodies?
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Undergrad Raman Amplification: Understanding its Role in Optical Fibers
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High School Difference between temporal and spatial coherence
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High School Coherent waves for interference
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Undergrad Relationship between the refractive index and absorption
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Undergrad Why does slit diffraction occur?
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Graduate Irradiance measurement procedure
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Graduate The construction of half silvered mirrors
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Undergrad What is a quick way to approximate flight time off a cliff?
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Graduate Acoustical diffusion, scattering, attenuation
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Graduate Interference for for N slits formula
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Graduate Details of total internal reflection
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Graduate Will a 100% Reflective Interior Box Explode if a Light Source is Placed Inside?
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High School Why Light on a Surface Looks Dimmer with Intense Light: Explained
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High School When does refraction take place?
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Graduate Laser Gain Medium Interactions
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Undergrad How Does CCD Offset Affect Laser Beam Exit Angle?
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Undergrad Can Two Laser Beams Interfere with Each Other?
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High School Can UV Light Speed Up Fading of Car Paint?
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Graduate Parallel Plate Waveguide Basic Functionality Issue
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Graduate Calculating Zenith Angle for Nerf Gun Targeting
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High School When light goes from air to water,it change direction.
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Undergrad Very short infrared remote control question
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Scientific notation question - backscatter or backscattering angle?
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High School How Does Light Change Direction and Speed in Different Materials?
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