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Undergrad What is the nature of the medium that carries electromagnetic waves?
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Undergrad Is This Custom Lens Design Suitable for My Needs?
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Graduate Energy present in a localized area during nodal interference
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High School Refractive Index Explained: sini/sinr Ratio
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Undergrad Refractive Index - A Mixing Question Answered
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Undergrad Unknown Light Source Through Polarizer
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Graduate Moving Reflector: Doppler Shift & Relativity Perspective
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High School Why Do Objects Absorb & Reflect Different Colors?
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Graduate Why do wire-grid polarizers have a separation less than the wavelength?
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Undergrad Can Beats Be Heard When Tuning a Guitar Using the Beat Method?
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Undergrad Explanation for Rayleigh Criterion?
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Undergrad Question about sign convention for R1 and R2 when using the lens maker's formula
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Graduate Can't quite grasp idea of Unpolarized Light, TE-TM Polarization
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Undergrad Is My Book Wrong? Explaining Lens in Interference & Diffraction
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High School Solar Spectrum: The source of sunlight
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Undergrad Furthest point at which light interferes
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Graduate Could a Nuetrino Laser Cause Damage Without Interacting Electromagnetically?
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Undergrad Why do photons not pass straight through objects?
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Undergrad Can glare be vertically polarized in a natural environment?
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Graduate Nuclear Radius and Diffraction
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Undergrad How can frequency be used to calculate refractive index?
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Undergrad Can Two Independent Lasers Create an Interference Pattern?
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Undergrad Laser Cutting for Dense Materials: Q&A
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High School What Oscillates in Light and What Are the Units of Measurement?
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Undergrad What Are Counter-Propagating Waves and Their Amplitude Scenarios?
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Undergrad Create Sunlight: Artificial Possibility?
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Undergrad Another sign convention issue (optics)
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High School Angle of refraction snells law
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High School What is the process called when metal is heated in a microwave oven?
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Undergrad What is the density of photons in a beam of light?
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Undergrad What is the explanation for this diffraction pattern?
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Undergrad LED Light - Beam Charactoristic?
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Undergrad Polarity of Induced EMF in a Conducting Ring
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Undergrad Transmission line reflection coefficient
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Graduate Boundary conditions - Fresnel equations
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Graduate Optical Reflection: Difference Between a Mirror and a White Surface?
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Graduate Doing a research on aberrations in order to
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Graduate Are Beat Signals in Phase Modulation Really Zero Without Absorption?
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Undergrad Can Objects Travel at the Speed of Light?
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Graduate Is it possible to have a 2x1 wave guide combiner which doesn't through away 3dB?
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Undergrad Possible methods for measuring light absorption in optics experiment?
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Graduate Orthogonally polarized beams do not interfere, do they beat?
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Undergrad Ponderings on Reflected Sunlight in a Race Track
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Graduate Fresnel Equations | Refractive Index Interface
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Graduate Superposition of light waves: 90 degrees out of phase, amplitude of resultant?
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Undergrad What Is the Radius of Curvature in Optical Applications?
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High School Why do we see a spectrum after Swimming?
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The photon does have a lifespan?
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Undergrad Light intensity of UV component from a xenon lamp
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Graduate Optical determination of young's modulus.
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Graduate How close is a 2D Gaussian to an Airy disk?
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Graduate Bragg's diffraction x ray flourescence
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Graduate Uncertainty principle in classical optics
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Undergrad Why is Diffraction dependent upon wavelength?
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Undergrad What physics causes this mirror reflection?
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Undergrad Lidar s-Function: Definition, Meaning & Uses
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High School Reviving a Dim Laser Pointer Life
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Graduate Is there a way to know how the amplitude of a wave will evolve?
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Graduate Can Light Be Polarized Despite Its Three-Dimensional Wave Nature?
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High School Understanding Lens Flare: Causes and Observations | Light Phenomenon Explained
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Graduate Spontaneous emission in photonic crystals
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Undergrad Constructing a Liquid Mirror using gallium,Indium, tin alloy
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Undergrad The radii of the curvature of the spherical surfaces which is a lens
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Undergrad Monochromatic Waves: Why Constant Phase & Amplitude?
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Undergrad Speed of light - permeability?
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Undergrad Bio-Luminescent Light: Can It Light a Room?
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Undergrad Diffraction Grating: Effect of Wavelength Change on Pattern
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Graduate What are the units which I should use for these Rayleigh scattering equations?
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Graduate Wavelength, energy and photons.
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Undergrad Focal length equation from Radii of Curvature and refractive index of lens
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High School Why does a wave-front need to be preserved (for light)?
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Graduate Searching for problems in fiber, splicing or connector
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Graduate Focal Curve of an Achromatic Doublet
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Undergrad Christmas Tree Light: Investigating the Math Behind Its Curve
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Graduate How is the Bragg condition satisfied for AOMs in a double pass configuration?
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Undergrad Degree of diffraction in single slits
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Undergrad Which college offer Light and modern physics in summer?
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High School Understanding Light Waves: Reflection, Interference, and Perception
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Undergrad Why Wavelength of Light Changes in Refraction
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Undergrad Monochromatic and Coherent light
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High School Refractive index of different liquids
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Undergrad Why do mirrors reflect light but white surfaces don't?
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Graduate Does doppler effect affect ENERGY of photon?
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High School Does Chrome Paint Make a Good Mirror?
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Undergrad Huygens principle consequence of isotropy
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Undergrad Unraveling the Mystery of Photons: What Are They Made Of?
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Graduate Understanding Fourier Optics: Object Distance & Image Formation Explained
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Undergrad Bending of waves around obstacles and the effect of wavelength
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Undergrad Slit width order of wavelength
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Undergrad A Clear LED emitting different coloured light?
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High School Can light be filtered using red fabric?
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Undergrad What enables light to go at such speeds?
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Undergrad Calculating refractive index using lens
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Undergrad How can I explain the mirage created from two parabolic mirrors?
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Undergrad Type of image from an afocal optical system
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High School Young's Double Slit Experiment science fair
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Graduate Energy of Photon: Planck's Relation Proof
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Undergrad Korea's upcoming invisible tower
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Undergrad Is color an intrisic property of a substance - even in a dark room?
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Undergrad Light Resonance: Conceptual Question for Physicists
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