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Why Does the Angle of Refraction Change in Borosilicate Glass Experiments?
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Capillary action for non-polar substances?
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Magnification; What's focal point
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Photons reflecting off mirrors, wheres the flaw?
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About diffraction (conceptual problem)
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Diffraction & Grating: Uses in Everyday Life
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Superposition principle in arbitrary medium
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Phenomena of reflection of light
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Paraxial Rays: Definition & Diagrams
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When two Lasers meet what happens
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How Does Bisecting a Lens Affect Its Focal Length?
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How to measure the Intensity of Light?
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Can photons be accelated or do they always travel at one speed (speed of light)?
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Diffraction plane & image plane
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Clarification of White Light/Superposition
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How come light only reflects off surfaces and not internal planes?
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What is the actual cause of refraction?
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Harnessing Sunlight Indoors for Sustainable Gardening
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Collimate Light from Mercury Arc Bulb for 5cm Circular Beam
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Applying Huygens's principle to light propagation
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Can We Store Lightning Energy?
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How to calculate laser thrust?
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Can a Tower Emit Light by Changing its Frequency to Match Visible Light?
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Polarization of Electromagnetic Waves: A Quantum Perspective
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Why does the direction of light change during refraction if the speed
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Fourier optics for diffraction pattern
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How can a thin mirror show such vast depths?
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Tracing the Light Path of a Green Laser Pointer
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How Do You Calculate Atomic Polarization and the Equilibrium Point?
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How to calculate radius of curvature of a reflector
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Why does light behave differently when reflecting off flat and curved surfaces?
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Optical Detection of Earth's Coriolis Force?
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Magnitude and Light brightness question
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What is the difference between a quantum and photon?
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Mirror phenomenon after a shower
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How Does Light Behave Before Passing Through a Slit in Diffraction Experiments?
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Wave interference in a car at speed
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Brightness of real images from converging lens
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Derivation of Law of Refraction
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How does light illuminate objects? (help me in a debate)
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Amplitude will change after unpolarised wave passes through a polariod
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Measuring Light Output - Howdy Yall
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Simple radio wave reflection question
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Why is wave diffraction around object better at longer wavelength?
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How come there is visible light in Uv lights?
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Practical Report For Investigation to flight (wind tunnel)?
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When emitting a photon, does the body exert an opposite force?
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Complex refractive index mesurement from reflectivity data
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Why do glass and crsytals absorb light?
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Traveling at the speed of light and time travel?
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Why concave reflectors work better than a plane reflector
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Emit one lower energy Photon and
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Once to light never back again
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So confused about reflection from metal surfaces
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Is a refrigeration laser thermodynamically possible?
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Circular motion - Force perpendicular to velocity does not change magnitude.
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Snell's law with complex n, interpret complex angle?
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Constructive interference - energy non-conservation?
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