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High School Why Do Some Sound Waves Reflect While Others Are Absorbed?
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Graduate Determination of Laser Induced Fields in Matter
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Graduate Passive long range sensor using radio wave distortions?
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Graduate Relation between refractive index and model equation
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High School How does the light from a laser reflect off objects with same color?
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Graduate Half-silvered rear surface phase shift
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Graduate Optics issue with focusing beam
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Undergrad How does a photon reflect off a smooth surface?
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Undergrad Why is it not possible to see the interference pattern of white light
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High School Index of refraction and density
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Graduate Concentration of evanescent/surface waves
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Undergrad Why Choose High Frequency Radio Waves for Long-Distance Communication?
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Graduate Wave guide modes: what are they, how are they used
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Undergrad Simple Microscopes: Find Focal Length & Magnifying Power
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Graduate Opposite resulting combinations of primary colors
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High School Why Does Our Sun Appear Yellow Instead of White?
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High School Can Bicycles Generate Enough Power to Run Microwaves?
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Undergrad Source of the first Photon in the LASER
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High School How do i demonstrate thin film interference with microscope slides?
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Graduate Similarity and difference between light and sound?
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Graduate Possibility of million entangled photons
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Graduate Smallest curvature radius in gradient index optics
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Undergrad Objects Absorb & Reflect Light: How Does It Work?
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High School Young's Double Slit Experiment - Good Set Up?
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Undergrad Radio waves to gamma particle question
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Undergrad Optics: Can a magnified real image be larger than the lens diameter?
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Graduate Reflection of particles and light: different reflection surface types
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Graduate What is the relationship between the speed of light and the true vacuum?
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Undergrad Absorption coefficient of aluminium for microwaves
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High School How to Create a Desktop Rainbow Experiment?
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Graduate Floating Mirror & Its Unusual Focus Heat
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Undergrad How Does Thin Film Thickness Affect Interference Patterns?
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High School How Do Fiber Optic and Copper Cables Differ in Physics?
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Graduate What's the microwave S-parameter?
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Graduate Mie scattering for sphere with constant dipole moment
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Graduate Is light matter, or just a concept of vibrations in a medium?
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Graduate Is My Laser Truly Vertically Polarized?
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Graduate Collimating a white light beam
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Graduate Why does a conductor's refractive index affect Snell's law for refraction?
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Undergrad Is false yellow true yellow when reflected?
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Undergrad Question about nature of light
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Undergrad Definition of View Angle of Human Eye ?
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Undergrad Laser beam with 5 millimeter diameter
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Undergrad Is mixed light the same as interfered light?
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Graduate Out of Pure Light Matter is Created
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Undergrad What could cause a polarizer to not block 100% light?
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Graduate Polarizability if a molecule in raman scattering
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Graduate Orders of Magnitude - From Quark to Superstring Theory
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Graduate Prooving pseudo-periodicity of diffracted field for gratings
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Graduate Phase retrieval problem for laser profile
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Undergrad Gold's index of refraction in micro-onde
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Undergrad Is Stefan–Boltzmann law valid for light reflection
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Undergrad Solving Optics Lens Problems: 2 Possibilities for Object Placement
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Graduate General equation for light intensity entering half circle
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High School How does wave reflection work?
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Graduate Transmittance: Conflicting definitions?
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Buy a Determinium Lens Online - What is It?
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Undergrad Engraving laser machine with a lens
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High School Changing the color of an LED bulb
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Graduate Laser Sheet Optics: Generating w/ Spherical Lenses
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Graduate Optical rotation and linear basis set
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Undergrad Choosing the Right Fresnel Lens for Automotive Headlamp Projection?
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Undergrad How do anti-reflective coatings let MORE light in through the lens?
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Graduate Altering the speed of light, implications
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Undergrad Mechanics~polar coordinate & radial and transverse component
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Undergrad Will high power laser penetrate mirror?
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Graduate Extremely energetic photon threshold
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Graduate Do photons have mass experiment?
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Undergrad Need a suggestion for an assignment on fiber optics.
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Graduate Relating absorbance wavelengths and refractive index
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Undergrad How do mirrors create images despite scattered light?
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Undergrad Building a Laser? Questions, Resources & Cost
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Graduate Transparency via destructive interferance.
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Graduate Camera Specifications computing focal length and f/#
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Graduate Homopolar Generator Setup & Effect of Magnetized Conductivity
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Graduate Why do objects reflect light (microscopic point of view)
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Graduate Seeking recommendations for fiber laser mode-locking resources
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High School Is this statement true, false or just confused?
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Undergrad Color addition involving wavelengths
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Graduate Spectral radiancy curve of a black body
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Undergrad Why doesn't light interfere in a room?
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Graduate Simulating diffraction in optical instruments - help settle a dispute
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Undergrad How Do Diffraction and Interference Affect Microscopes and Telescopes?
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Undergrad Sound wave vs light wave speed
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High School Dependence of refractive index
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High School Why does the moon appear larger at the horizon?
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Undergrad Why are only certain wavelengths reflected when light strikes a wall?
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High School Why does light slow down in glass?
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Undergrad Does Sound Undergo a Phase Shift When Reflected From a Wall?
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Undergrad Veloctiy of image of a moving obect having constant veloctiy
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Graduate Photon polarization and direction
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High School Mirrors reflecting images infinitely
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Graduate Quantum interference with different polarization
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High School How can I see a cables from 55 miles away?
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Undergrad Alpha ray scattering experiment
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Graduate Is there a difference between cross section and scattering cross section?
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Graduate How does a photon know to pass through without interacting?
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Undergrad Measure optical power with spectrometer
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Graduate Breaking the coherence of an optical signal
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Graduate Photons, Antimatter- My unsolved Questions
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