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Graduate Interaction of Photon with water
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Graduate Photon as a particle and e-ray and o-ray
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Graduate What Determines Axial Resolution in Spherical Lenses?
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High School Limiting factor in determining if wave will pass through?
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Graduate Wave Interference and Polarization
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Undergrad Do Stars in Space Interact Through Wave-Cancellation?
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High School Confused About Light & Mass: Get Help Here!
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High School Basic doubt about a concept in Optics
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Undergrad What Can You See When You Look at a Mirror Under a Microscope?
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Graduate Calculating the coherence length of a laser
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Undergrad Light waves travelling in a material.
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Undergrad Do Photons Have Mass According to E=MC2?
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Graduate How does the finite size of an obstacle affect diffraction patterns?
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Graduate Detection of a Specific Fluorescent Wavelength via iPhone camera
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Graduate Angular magnification of an out-of-focus eyepiece
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Undergrad Magnitude of the tension when there is static (variable) friction
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Undergrad Radio waves vs material & shape
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Undergrad LCD cell thickness - why is this restricted?
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High School Wave aspect of light( index of refraction)
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Graduate Is birefringence different in plastics, glass and calcite?
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Graduate Could a spy satellite spot a nickel on the ground?
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Undergrad Single slit width change, how would fringes differ?
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Undergrad Correcting camera distance with zoom
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Graduate How Does the Gradient Force Arise in Lasers?
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High School Bubbles that collapse = light?
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High School Information carried by ray of light
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Undergrad Ray tracing through optical system of thick lenses
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Graduate Problem with proofing polarity of the reflected and transmitted wave.
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High School Finding amplitude from a diagram
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Graduate How do diffraction and uncertainty relate to each other?
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Undergrad Light Wave Theory: Particles, Vibrations & Pass-Through
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Graduate How to proof the polarity of the reflected wave of Oblique incident.
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High School Need Help With a Physics Phenomenon (Quick Question)
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High School Does visible light contain energy?
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High School Does light make us heavier and does the Earth's rotation affect our weight?
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Graduate Please check what's in the Ulaby book regarding reflection.
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Graduate Understanding the dipole model for Rayleigh scattering
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Graduate Question about light waves canceling each other
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Graduate Question in reflection and transmission at oblique incidence.
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Undergrad Laser optics suppliers in Europe
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Graduate How Does Light Slow Down in Different Media?
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Undergrad Image of a Convex Lens Cut in Half Horizontally
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High School How does light travel Through a vacuum
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Graduate Absorption of light by spherical nanoparticle
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Graduate Resolution of F vs t measurement
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Undergrad Question about perception of colors around light sources
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Graduate Change in speed and wavelength of light while travelling from one med
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Undergrad Optics & Thin Glass in Liquid: Distance d & Image on Screen
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High School Why do x-ray machines increase cancer risk?
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High School Rayleigh scattering on gases-questions
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High School Whats faster than the speed of light?
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Graduate Units of Transmittance: Defining & Explaining
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Undergrad What is Spatial and Temporal Coherence.
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Graduate Can a Laser Disrupt Another Laser?
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Graduate E-field polarization in the direction of propagation, TEM, TE, TM
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High School How Can Light Have No Mass Yet Transfer Energy?
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Undergrad Contact angle and anti reflective coating.
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Graduate Why self focusing at high densities?
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Graduate Theory of Structured illumination microscopy
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Graduate Airy disk and resolution in confocal microscopy
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Graduate Deriving navier stokes in polar
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Undergrad Wave degradation over distances
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What elements a light made of?
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High School What element that can't pass through light?
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Undergrad Is the laser perfect monochromatic light source?
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Undergrad Information travelling faster than light
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Graduate How Does Dust Grain Size Compare to Wavelength in Scattering Light?
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Undergrad A Curious Question about LCD Display
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Undergrad Is there a way of measuring reflectance vs absorbance
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Graduate EM fields in unpolarized light
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Undergrad Focal length multiplied by wavelength
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Graduate Is there a limit to how much energy can be stored in a photon?
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Undergrad Understanding the Concept of Ray of Light and Diffraction at Small Apertures
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Undergrad Acceptance Angle in Optical fibre
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Undergrad Can we find a material that only transmits red light?
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Undergrad What does it take for a material to be transparent to light?
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Graduate Side-by-side quarter wave plates
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High School What makes materials seem colored?
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High School How is light affected by glass sheets?
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Undergrad Refractive index of two fluids when mixed
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Graduate Calculate Reflected Radiance from Wave Facet
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Undergrad What Is the Relationship Between Radius and Wavelength in Huygens' Wavelets?
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Graduate Destructive Interference of gamma waves
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High School How to define light in laymans terms
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Are there questions about light that still need to be answered?
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Graduate Wavefront and point-like obstacle
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High School Why is white paper white and not black
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Undergrad Quarter wave chokes and waveguides?
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Undergrad Solving a Complex Problem: Can You Help?
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High School What are wave and particle nature of light theories?
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Graduate Stimulated Raman Scattering Spectroscopy
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Graduate Diffraction Grating And Lightbulb
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Undergrad Diffraction Patterns: Sunlight vs. Laser Beam
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Undergrad Neutrino is faster then photon (light) so how can be this possible?
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Undergrad Shooting a star (with torchlight)
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Graduate Are DC circuits similar to AC circuits during switch on/off?
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Graduate Physics beyond the speed of light.
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Undergrad What happens to 'unabsorbed' photons?
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Graduate Why does a 90° phase difference in light waves cause slower travel?
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Undergrad Is Light Both Waves and Particles, or Something Completely Different?
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