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Rust from my microwave ruined a nice bowl of soup and also my day
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I've been studying waves and diffraction has come up, I'd just like to
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How does refraction work on the quantum level?
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Can Alternating Current Generate Light?
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Complete annihilation of light through polarizers
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Reflectivity off metals - polarization
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Does Light Travel Forever or Eventually Fade Away?
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Acousto optical modulators
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The Nature of Light: Is it a Particle or a Wave?
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Light Speed: Is Life Truly "Indefinable"?
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Aligning a laser with a single-mode fibre
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Photon Mass: Particles or Waves?
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Polarization Beamsplitter Cubes
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What is causing the LED to light up when touched without a direct connection?
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How exactly does light's wavelength expanding over time mean space expands?
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Relation between laser frequency and range?
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Infrared Wavelength: Same Emission for All Materials?
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Anti-reflection coating and FULL reflection coatings
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Ball Lenses Concept Explained: Get Answers Here
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Light & Shadows: Read in Shadow but Not the Dark?
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Doppler effect for light - how can it be explained ?
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What Is the Scientific Explanation for Ball Lightning?
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Can some one Fully explain reflection for me, because i am reading my
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Laser pointer shined on photographic film?
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How is refractive index a function of frequency?
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Telecentric Lenses: Benefits & Applications
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Maximizing Laser Focus: Understanding Divergence and Distance Limitations
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How does the number of photons determine wavelength?
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Selective transmission/absorption of light based on amplitude?
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Reflection: instantaneous or not?
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Reflected light from a polarizer
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Building a Homopolar Generator: Step-by-Step Tutorial
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Writing Optical Fields: An Explanation by Niles
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Thin Lens Formula: Deriving 1/f = 1/S_O + 1/S_I
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Planewave scattering on metal wedge problem
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Refraction and constant frequency
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Where can i buy monochromatic coloured filters(optics):
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Understanding Interference: Wave A & Wave B
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Standing wave interference patterns on liquid metals
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Frequency of the polarization of light
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Is the speed of light truly the fastest velocity in the universe?
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Counterintuitive result? Polarizers, Malus's Law
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Diffuse Reflection vs. Scattering?
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Can a Hypothetical Perfectly Rigid Body Transmit Forces Faster than Light?
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Can you have an anti focal point of a lens?
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Does Speed Of Light Scale With Size?
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Photon Detectors: Absorption or Further Testing?
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Why is the speed of light slower in substances compared to a vacuum?
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Understanding Optical Equivalent Path: Differences and Similarities
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Interference: Calculating the direction of the resultant wave
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How Does Light Relate to Energy and Subatomic Particles?
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Is the Dual Nature of Light Really That Confusing?
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A question about speed of light and sunrise time
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N=c/v=λ0/λ (T doesn't change) and v of light is constant
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The Speed of Light: Variance in Non-Vacuum Mediums
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Reflection at a conducting surface
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Linear polarized light and polarisation
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Is Gravity a quantum state like light is?
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Double-Split experiment with light
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Understanding Polarization and Phase Changes in Optical Systems
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The Mysteries of Faster-Than-Light Travel: A Physicist's Guide"
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Nothing is faster than Light, Right?
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Does Light Change Color When Refracted in Glass?
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Why does black color asorb light?
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Strain optic coefficient definition
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Deflect Light: Electromagnetic Waves & Magnetic Fields
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Photons in amorphous glass slow because?
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Speed of light just after the Big bang?
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Light Traveling in both Directions in a fiber optic cable
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Can Light be used to see what's in the past?
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How to model flight of simple parachute in 2D?
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Sign convention in geometric optics.
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Is there a e-ray refraction theory?
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Does a red-hot mirror reflect light the same way?
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So I have tried to model what happens when you light both ends of a
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Slowest recorded, speed of light.
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Why is Light Considered an Electromagnetic Wave?
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Passing elliptically polarized light through a linear polarizer
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Calculate No of Images Formed by 2 Mirrors at Angle α
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Derivation of the thin lens equation?
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Can Particles Like Light Be Accelerated in a Particle Accelerator?
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Limits of Human Vision: Visible Spectrum and Beyond
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What is the role of resonance in the heating process of a microwave oven?
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Splitting infrared and visible light.
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What colors of visible light can be seen from the farthest distance?
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Optics - reduce image and launch into optical fiber
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Understanding Unpolarized Light
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Are photons from a light bulb and the sun the same for our bodies?
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How Do You Set the Angle of a Diffraction Grating for Retroreflection?
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What is the Focal Length of a Convex Lens?
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What is the relationship between numerical aperture and focal length in lenses?
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Hi In the Diffraction Handbook
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Infrared and NIR Camera Sensitivity
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Can Two Intersecting Laser Pulses Create a Visible 'Flash' in Midair?
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