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Undergrad Refractive Index: Why is it Same in Vacuum for All Lightwaves?
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Undergrad What Does Single Electromagnetic Mode Mean in Fibre Optics?
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Graduate Understanding conceptually how a plane wave interacts with a boundary
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Graduate Is this a good way to reduce the bubble content of acrylic?
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Graduate Why is No Backward Wavefront Possible?
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High School Power from LED bulb in sunlight
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Undergrad Can a Perfectly Black Object Absorb All Light and Create a Blank Spot in Vision?
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Graduate Optical setup: proper lenses selection
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Graduate Do antireflective coats increase the angle of total internal reflectio
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Graduate Why are X-rays scattered by matter?
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Graduate Reflection and absorption in matte black vs. shiny black objects
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Graduate Optical design: BPP beam parameter product M^2 and beam expander
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Undergrad Can LED's emit monochromatic light as efficiently as broad spectrum?
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Graduate Calculating the Polarization of a Plane Wave in Electromagnetic Exercises
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Graduate From what point is the focal length of a thick lens measured?
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Graduate Polarisation of reflected light
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Graduate Derivation of Height Function given an angle
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Undergrad Path Different Between Two Waves
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High School Waves: Why No Interference Pattern with 2 Flashlights?
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Graduate Microscope condensers and resolution kohler illumination
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Undergrad How to obtain beam spread angle of a parabolic reflector?
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High School Help understanding about wavelength
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Graduate Term scattering more of a general process
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Graduate Why the photon is disturbed by a hole?
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Undergrad Understanding Optical Path Difference in Optics | OPD Explained
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Undergrad Can the Energy of a Photon be Expressed in h/s?
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High School Can humans really see in the infrared spectrum?
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Graduate Converting Lumens to Photons and Energy at Varying Wavelengths
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Undergrad Spectrum of Light from Hydrogen
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Undergrad Stimulated and spotaneous emission
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Graduate Question about toroidal mirror
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High School Difference between double slit diffraction and interference?
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Graduate Random peaks, spectrophotometer & iridescence
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Undergrad Would a square wave look like a sine passed through a material?
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Graduate Two-Slit Experiment: Photon Energy Shift from Gravity
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Graduate Can Light Travel Faster Than Its Speed in a Vacuum?
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Graduate Is there a phase shift associated with twisted nematic LCDs?
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Graduate The Magic of Light: Trapping Light in Orbit
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High School Optical scope for general purpose
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Graduate Widefield laser epi-illumination
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Graduate Double slit - why do we get an interference pattern?
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Understanding laser phenomenon
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Graduate Does Diffracted Light Need to Be Focused or Collimated on CCD?
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Undergrad Fourier Series and Absorption Questions?
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Graduate Dispersion of waves - wavephysics
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Undergrad Why Do Different Colors Appear When Using a Polarimeter on Sucrose Solution?
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High School What Causes Everyday Objects to Have Different Colors?
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Graduate Synchrotron X-ray Measurements
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Undergrad Can Lasers Be Used as a Viable Energy Source Despite Their High Power Output?
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Undergrad Understanding Destructive Wave Interference
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Graduate What'd happen if two light source collide w/ each other?
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Undergrad Two convex lenses in a system?
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Graduate Scattering formulas, what's the point?
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Undergrad Difference between Optical and Geometrical length?
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Undergrad 'flat' field spectrograph and optcs focusing
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High School An interesting way to get an interference pattern
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Undergrad Question about reflectivity of mirrors vs transitivity of lenses
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Graduate Diminished image of ultra small object
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Undergrad Is it possible to use air as a medium to display images?
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Undergrad Flipping a polarizer 180deg. changes polarization
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Graduate To Physicists: Some questions and information?
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Graduate How can we have Inelastic scattering?
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How we can collect two wave(light) ?
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Undergrad How Does the Laue Camera Calculate Reflection Angle as 180 - 2θ?
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High School How Does Light and Time Affect Our Perception of Reality?
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Undergrad What Happens When Two Wavelengths Are Modulated at the Same Frequency?
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Graduate Understanding Interference and Energy in Monochromatic Light Sources
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High School [Waves] Wavelength and surfaces penetration
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Undergrad Examining Fermats Principle & Light's Path of Min Time
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Undergrad What Went Wrong in My Young's Double Slit Experiment?
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Undergrad Photonics Question - Laser and Total Internal Reflection
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Undergrad Should i be worried? (UV lamp wavelength)
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Undergrad Light Speed: Can Einstein's Theory Explain It?
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Graduate Why can I see light from TEM00 laser in direction of propagation?
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Graduate Quick question on Fourier transform
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Undergrad What Causes the Wave Motion of Light in a Vacuum?
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Graduate Ball lightning atmosphere interaction
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High School What Is the Wavelength of White Light?
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Positive or Negative? A Question about Polarity
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Graduate Can Microwaves Fuse Metal Particles on a Plastic Substrate?
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Undergrad Spherical mirror area according to the amount of light
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High School Can My Friend Across the Atlantic See My Light on a Clear Day?
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Graduate Creating a low pressure region inside a laser beam
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Graduate Does light follow a helical path ?
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Graduate Can light be synthetically created ?
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High School If a light goes from space to a glass
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High School Solve Physics: Understand Bernoulli's Principle & How an Aerofoil Develops Lift
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Graduate Can Light Shift Beyond Detection Due to Particle Absorption?
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High School Does every light ray travels in all directions?
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Undergrad Why Does Light With Less Wavelength Run Faster in Glass?
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Graduate Understanding Brewster's Angle
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Undergrad Why Aren't the Stars Visible at Night?
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Graduate Can Laser be generated with only rapid decay levels?
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Undergrad How to determine if a semiconductor laser is broken
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Graduate Converging wave interference generating a caustic
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Graduate Would anything going the speed of light kill you and would fermions?
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High School What is Coherence? Explained Clearly
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Graduate Aberrations at Lens Elements as Unsharp Filter
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Undergrad What is the Magnitude of Acceleration?
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Undergrad Can a single biconvex lens provide fixed magnification?
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