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Graduate Interactions between Photons and Atoms in the Electromagnetic Spectrum
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Undergrad Optical Drive Physics: Data Storage & Reflection
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Graduate Understanding REALD 3D Cinema Glasses: Experiments and Confusions Explained
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Undergrad Gravitational lensing due to earth
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Undergrad Lightning/Sparks physics equation
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Graduate Infrared Gas Analyzer: How to Accurately Measure Concentration
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Graduate External Cavity Laser: Ultra Narrow Line Width
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Graduate Line of Polarizers Reflection Question
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Graduate Slow Light: Can Light Gain Mass and Accelerate?
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Undergrad Why does infrared light produce more heat than visible light?
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Undergrad Calculating Efficiency of LED Without Plastic Dome
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Graduate Thought Expirement: Light In a Mirrored box
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Undergrad Does a spherical wavefront thicken as it moves outwards ?
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Graduate Fiber Optic Y Connection Question
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Do i have the ability to see in ultraviolet?
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Undergrad Optical Source Modulation with a Chopper
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Undergrad Absorption and Emission Spectrum
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Graduate Intensity of elliptically polarized light
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Graduate Smallest diameter collimated laser/optical beam?
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Graduate Sending communications on light waves
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Graduate Speed of light and bending time
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Graduate Resolution of points by human eye
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Undergrad Young's light interference experiment
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High School Can Destructive Interference Completely Silence Music?
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Undergrad Earth Mass Increasing? Photons and Photosynthesis making more matter on earth?
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Can light travel faster than itself?
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Undergrad Can Perpendicular Waves Interfere When Overlapping?
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Undergrad Why is Snow White While Water and Ice Are Not?
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Undergrad Need help with contraconcave mirrors
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Graduate Direct photons in one direction Help?
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Graduate Does Time Influence the Speed of Light in Special Relativity?
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Graduate Understanding Wave Phase: A0cosϕ = ℜa0eiϕ
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Graduate Diffraction Across a Knife Edge
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Undergrad Does Fresnel reflection involves absorption of light?
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Graduate Travelling wave phase difference problem
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Undergrad Light sky under primary rainbowwhy?
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Undergrad Glass that has minimum reflection and absorption at 1550nm
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High School Create Stunning Optics Schemes with Our Software - Perfect for Academics
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Undergrad Total Internal Reflection a doubt?
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Undergrad What Happens When Snell's Law Is Exceeded?
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Graduate Is light what we think of as dark matter?
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Graduate Reflecting Gamma Rays w/ Electron Gas for Spacecraft
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High School Energy and Light: Is it All the Same?
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Undergrad Youngs double slit experiment.
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Undergrad If light is a wave, what is waving?
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Graduate Vacuum Polarization: Dielectric Possibility?
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Undergrad Can a Grounded Target Evade a Direct Lightning Strike with Sufficient Speed?
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High School Are photons necessary for an object to show colour?
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High School Where does light go when i turn off the.light
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Undergrad Optics-Lenses - image outside the mirror?
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Undergrad Sub Atomic Particle Sizes (Orders of Magnitude related)
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Undergrad What is the difference between Raman scattering and fluorescence
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High School Why are microwave waves bad for you?
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Graduate Could a Mass for Photons Change Our Understanding of Relativity?
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Graduate Phase change of reflected wave - is there a polarization dependence?
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Graduate Refractive index and its effect upon conduction/insulation
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Graduate Infinity-corrected optical system
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Undergrad Light prapogate as wave or particle?
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Undergrad Spherical Aberation & Barrel Distortion
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Undergrad Confused about image size in plane, concave, or convex mirrors
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Graduate Spectrometer setup to minimize absorption of reflected light
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Undergrad Water waves - is this reflection, or refraction, or both?
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Undergrad Directionality of a Laser Beam
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Graduate Understanding the Relationship between Nonlinearity and Dispersion in Materials
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Undergrad How does light lose energy as it travels over distance?
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Graduate Microwave interactions with motion sensors
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Undergrad Why are Localized Fringes Curved in a Michelson Interferometer Experiment?
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Graduate Why can we see light when looking down a metallic tube? TEM modes can't exist.
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Undergrad Do Photons Oscillate in Electromagnetic Waves?
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Undergrad What Metal Best Emits Infrared Light for Camera Detection?
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Graduate Mie scattering of infinite cylinder (light parallel to axis)
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Graduate Put some light on my concept of light.
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Graduate Questions about Waves - Answers and Explanations
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High School Why does light allow us to see things?
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Undergrad Derivation for magnification equation for convex mirrors
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Undergrad UV light absorption by transparent sheets – how?
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Graduate General formula for refractive index of moist air?
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Graduate Solving Optical Microscopy Issues with Vertical Sidewalls of Deep Trenches
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High School Help~total internal reflection
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Undergrad Low Cost, High Index of Refraction?
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Graduate Local Conservation of Energy in Superposition of Mechanical Wave Pulses
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High School Does lightening cause a form of cavitation?
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Undergrad Light Properties: Refraction & Huygens' Principle
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High School Circuit with 2 batteries when one has a reversed polarity
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Graduate How Does Polarization Affect Capacitor Charge and Potential Difference?
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High School Hi is light a kind of acceleration? (not velocity or momentum)
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High School Understanding the Disappearance of Light: A Physics Newbie's Question Answered
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High School How Does Light Move and What Propels Photons?
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Undergrad Why does light bend,not just slow down?
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High School The Mysteries of Fresnel's Equations: A Beginner's Guide
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Graduate Coupled Pendulums - Possible Solutions and Superposition
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Undergrad Eyeglasses with smallest chromatic abberation
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Undergrad Classical description of laser light?
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High School Light dispersion through a window glass
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Graduate The relationship between absorbtion, emissivity and reflection
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High School Autofocus which subject does it focus on?
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Undergrad Move or attract large/heavy materials using polarisation
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High School Can a Lightning Strike Kill Someone Flying in the Sky?
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Undergrad Refraction and splitting of a photon
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Graduate Specular reflection from moving mirrors
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