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Polarization by half-silvered mirror?
Mar 31, 2011
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Trouble understanding ray optics
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If Oxygen is flammable why dont we blow up while we were using a cigar lighter
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Lightning Rod Tip Radii: Why So Small?
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Sodium street lamps and the light they emit
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De borgie relation and photon energy
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Does light travel at the speed of light?
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Why light bends when it enters a different medium
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Conservation of energy and light
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Hi,I want to ask how can i refract or reflect radio wave
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Information transmitted faster than light?
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Diffraction and phase difference
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[Optics] Starting a fire with a magnifying glass
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Negative Energy Solutions to Photon Wavefunction
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Is the speed of light always constant, even in non-vacuum environments?
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How is the speed of light constant?
Mar 21, 2011
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Uncertainty in the mesurements of a meter and the speed of light
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The nature of radio waves Question.
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What Are the Implications of Light's Speed on Perception and Knowledge?
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An Alternative Model of the Double Slit Interference Experiment
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Optical Spectrum Analyzers - Confused on Units
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Creative Optics Experiment Ideas for First-Year Physics Students
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Speed of light through a medium
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Increase Laser Power out of fiber optic
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Optimizing Laser Beam Expansion for Long-Distance Scanning Applications
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Understanding Optical Tunneling
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What's the Flight Distance of Identical Objects with Different Masses?
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Light vs Radio attenuation in water
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Which color reflect UV light best?
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Where Does Electromagnetic Energy Go?
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A question about mirrors and images
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Why Do Sunglasses Have Zero Power?
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Mirrors & Photons: More Light in 6' x 6' Room w/Mirror?
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Light: Electron Deflection Q&A
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Can black lines on a mirror cause diffraction of light?
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Why I can burn a paper with magnifying glass and sun?
Mar 4, 2011
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Lots of questions on wave optics
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Polarization states of light in 2D
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Violet light produced from green He-Ne laser?
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Do E and B Fields Distort When Focusing Photons with a Lens?
Mar 3, 2011
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Diffraction, refraction & reflection
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Interference occurs, if two waves are said to be coherent
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What is the Cutoff Wavelength for a Photon Passing Through a Waveguide?
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Greetings, how does light travel through the glass?
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Scientist makes radio waves travel faster than light
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Do lasers suffer R^2 propagation loss
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Wavelength Function and Diffraction Orders Explained
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What color would a door painted with ultraviolet paint appear to be?
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Color\Light efficiency in imaging systems
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Times of flight for projectiles
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Dissipation of Light: Measuring Intensity & Energy Loss
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The Nature of Photons: Do They Truly Travel Between Points A and B?
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Question: Time in Zero Velocity as Opposed to Light-Speed
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How to Safely Clean and Remove Residues from a Polarizing Beamsplitter Cube
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Scientists build world's first anti-laser
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Kirchoff's radiative balance law and polarisation of emitted light
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How Does a Mirror Work and Why Doesn't It Look Blue?
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Total internal reflection zero
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How can i calculate the brightness of moon's light at night on the earth?
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Why Don’t Photons Get Trapped Forever Between Two Mirrors?
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Laser Beam Destructive Interference
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Why do x rays travel faster than light in some states of matter
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Can Photons Interact with Each Other Through Electron Mediation?
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How Do Optic Fibers Minimize Interference While Transmitting Information?
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Clarification required: polarization density and displacement field
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Is Light Truly Discrete or Merely a Manifestation of Matter's Nature?
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Sources for the diffracted waves
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Why Does Light Disappear When the Source is Turned Off?
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Losses involved in reflection and refraction
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Feynman says photons ARE particles
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Laser beams in the frequency range of of microwaves
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Snell's law and the concept of critical angle
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What happens when you pass red light through different colored glass?
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Light and our rate of perception
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Optical Phase Detection Techniques for Improved Noise Floors in Interferometers
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Entangled Frankenstein Photons
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Damping of a Laser Beam: Understanding the Science and Equations
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How photons create an image via the brain
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Application of microwave beams
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180 degree Compton Scattering: low versus high energy initial photon
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The nature of light from colored(visual) materials
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If photons have no mass, then how can they travel the speed of light?
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Where Does the Green Go at Twilight?
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Harnessing Solar Energy with Fresnel Lenses
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Photon Emission: Atom Collapse & Radial Forces Explained
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Change in velocity of light with change in optical density
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Precession of a football in flight
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Making a Fresnel Lens for Solar Water Purification
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Absolute Zero & Speed of Light
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