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Graduate Understanding Fraunhofer Diffraction: Classical vs. Quantum Interpretation
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High School What is Order of Magnitude and Significant figures in any measurement?
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High School Searching for a nice explanation: Plane Mirror
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Graduate What Happens to Massless Light at the End of Its Existence?
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Undergrad How Much Light Can Fiber Optic Cables Carry?
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Graduate Eigenfunction of a Jones Vector (System)
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Graduate Why are all non-principal sagittal rays considered skew?
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Graduate How Does Chiral Substance Affect the Propagation and Refraction of Light?
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Graduate Optics Problem - Maximum Dipole Emission
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Undergrad How Does Wavelength Affect Reflection Angles in Gratings?
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High School Double Refraction: How It Works
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Undergrad Reflection in spherical mirrors
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Graduate Gamma Ray Laser, possible? Superior Weapon?
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Graduate Observing an object as it moves one lightyear away
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Graduate Theory of Systems of Rays question
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Undergrad Suggestions for diffraction experiments?
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High School What kind of optics are these?
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High School Particle or wave: What is the true nature of light?
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Graduate Sending polarerized light through light fiber that is all jumbled up.
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Graduate Is There A Maximum Possible Photon Energy?
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Undergrad Can a spherical spinning projectile oscillate in flight?
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Graduate Do photons have momentum without mass?
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Undergrad One question about diffraction
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Graduate Creating Point Light Sources: Techniques, Alternatives & Bizarre Ideas
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Undergrad Polarization of Light After Reflection from Surfaces
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Undergrad [Lab]difference between diffraction grating and linear polarizer ?
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Undergrad Transmitting visible light via optical fiber
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High School Light in vacuum and inverse square law
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Undergrad Faster than the speed of light paradox
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Graduate Optical tweezers that not always atract but also repel
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High School How efficient is a microwave oven
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Graduate Circularly Polarized Wave: Poynting Vector Analysis
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Undergrad Focal Points in Optics: Real-World Applications
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Graduate Can this in any way be considered to be a circularly polarized wave?
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Graduate Question About Light and Speed of Light
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Graduate Holographic grating - can we calculate efficiency for each order?
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Graduate Laboratory work, magnification
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High School Scanners and Optics Explained: Mirrors, Lens & CCD Array
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Undergrad Increase in Wavelength of an LED Immersed in Liquid Nitrogen
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Graduate Understanding Coherent Imaging in Optics: An Example
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Graduate Why can't we see around corners?
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High School Do we need a screen to view a real image?
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Undergrad Understanding Signal Modulation in Optical Fiber Experiments
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Graduate Harnessing the Power of Photons: A Closer Look at Photon Space Propulsion
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Undergrad Einstein on his discovery of the speed of light
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Undergrad Effective Refractive Index - Should be simple
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High School What is the importance of synchronized waves in interference?
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Undergrad Can light affected be affected by noise as other signals?I am not
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Graduate How Do You Calculate Total Absorption of a Sample from Its Absorbance Spectrum?
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Graduate Transmission by pure scatterer layer
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Graduate Reflection and Transmission: Why Must There Be a Reflected Wave?
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Graduate Can Light Be Made Invisible Using Metamaterials and Graded Refractive Index?
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Graduate Can Light Have Momentum Without Mass? A Question of Units
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Graduate Question on Photons and perception
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Undergrad Does aperture size impact image resolution?
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Graduate Cosmic microwave background question.
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Graduate Why should you feel lighter at equator if normal force is weaker?
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Graduate What happens to a photon wave packet when half out of a moving device?
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Graduate Beam splitters cubes configurations
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Undergrad Exploring Optics: A Visual Guide to Understanding Light and Its Properties
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Undergrad What makes the gas lamps light a certain color?
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Undergrad What is the significance of wave numbers and polarization in physics?
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Undergrad If the solenoid covers the whole length of a shake flashlight, will it light up?
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Undergrad The Mystery of Atoms Releasing Photons: A Scientific Exploration
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High School Are there really 9,460,000 km in a light year?
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High School Can Yellow Light Split into Red and Green When Passed Through a Prism?
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Graduate How do light years relate to the concept of time in physics?
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Cheap and Good Laser Safety Glasses
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Graduate Diffraction Transverse Wave Confusion
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Graduate Intensity of different color light & its relation to energy AND Amplitude
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High School Photon Speed when Bouncing off Moving Object
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High School Is space truly empty or is it filled with unseen forces and fields?
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Undergrad However, the question remains: What causes dispersion?
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Graduate Diffraction: Intensity in the double slit situation
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Undergrad Why is light affected by gravity?
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Graduate Can Photons Achieve Stable Orbits Around Black Holes?
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Graduate Classical optics: Lambda-quarter plates
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Graduate How do i derive the relation between coherence time and bandwidth
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Undergrad I with my physics lab questions about diffraction grafting
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Graduate Why optically active molecules rotate light?
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Undergrad Radiometry: Spectral Irradiance, Irradiance & Average Irradiance
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Graduate Can You Calculate Radiance from Irradiance Outputs Using a Spectroradiometer?
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Graduate Is possible to build an optical trap with non-laser light?
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High School Can Wet Cloth on a Telescope's Mirror Speed Up Cooling?
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Undergrad Are there mirrors/panels capable of reflecting designated color wavelengths?
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Graduate Could light be a particle that is unobservable as an actual particle?
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Race across the Universe:Who is on edge? Force Vs. Light
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High School Does stopping a very fast object makes it lighter?
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High School Doubt in myopia and Hypermetropia
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High School Dispersion by a rectangular prism
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Undergrad So why does the atmosphere block gamma rays but not UV rays?
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Graduate Maximum Information transferrable in Radio Waves
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Undergrad Energy level after photon absorbtion
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Undergrad What if light passes from lighter to denser medium
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Undergrad What is the relationship between stopping potential and the intensity of light?
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High School How does white light combine different colors of the spectrum?
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High School Whats the principle of superposition
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Undergrad Emission Spectra and the Rydberg Equation
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High School Why does the size of an image in a plane mirror not change when drawn on paper?
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Graduate Derivation of complex refractive index
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