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Graduate Amplifying Sunlight Through Fiber Optic Cables w/ Resonance?
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Graduate How Do Two Explanations of Spatial Hole Burning Differ?
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Graduate How Do Rayleigh Waves Reflect When Transitioning from Solid to Liquid Surfaces?
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Graduate Waves on a 1D string in higher dimensions, polarizations?
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Undergrad Why does a lens automatically produce perspective?
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Undergrad Refraction and bending of light
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Rust from my microwave ruined a nice bowl of soup and also my day
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Graduate Pincushion distortion from spherical detectors
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Graduate Can better sensors extract unlimited info from old lens?
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Undergrad I've been studying waves and diffraction has come up, I'd just like to
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Graduate How does refraction work on the quantum level?
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Undergrad Problem with Diffraction Grating Equation (results do not match theory)
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High School Can Alternating Current Generate Light?
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Undergrad Complete annihilation of light through polarizers
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High School Understanding Changes in Earth's Rotation and Revolution Speeds
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Undergrad Why Did a Cumulus Cloud Change Colors When Viewed Through Polarized Sunglasses?
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High School Why Does Wet Paper Allow More Light to Pass Through?
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Graduate Reflectivity off metals - polarization
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Undergrad What happens when infrared light passes through a glass prism?
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Undergrad How can E&M Waves be polarized?
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High School Does Light Travel Forever or Eventually Fade Away?
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Graduate Acousto optical modulators
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Graduate Which energy is easier to catch? LED or laser
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High School The Nature of Light: Is it a Particle or a Wave?
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High School Light Speed: Is Life Truly "Indefinable"?
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Undergrad Aligning a laser with a single-mode fibre
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Undergrad Need help finding origin of an equation
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Undergrad Photon Mass: Particles or Waves?
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Graduate Polarization Beamsplitter Cubes
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Undergrad What is causing the LED to light up when touched without a direct connection?
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Graduate Device that blocks waves of one phase, but transmits wave of opposite phase?
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Graduate How exactly does light's wavelength expanding over time mean space expands?
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Undergrad Relation between laser frequency and range?
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Undergrad Infrared Wavelength: Same Emission for All Materials?
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Undergrad Anti-reflection coating and FULL reflection coatings
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High School Ball Lenses Concept Explained: Get Answers Here
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Undergrad Does Ether Exist? 19th Century Evidence
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High School Light & Shadows: Read in Shadow but Not the Dark?
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Graduate Doppler effect for light - how can it be explained ?
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Undergrad What Is the Scientific Explanation for Ball Lightning?
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Undergrad Can some one Fully explain reflection for me, because i am reading my
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Undergrad Laser pointer shined on photographic film?
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Graduate How is refractive index a function of frequency?
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Undergrad Dangerous Wavelengths In Glassblowing
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Undergrad Telecentric Lenses: Benefits & Applications
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Undergrad Maximizing Laser Focus: Understanding Divergence and Distance Limitations
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Graduate How does the number of photons determine wavelength?
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Graduate Selective transmission/absorption of light based on amplitude?
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Undergrad Reflection: instantaneous or not?
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High School Why photodiode is operated in reverse bias?
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Undergrad Reflected light from a polarizer
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High School Building a Homopolar Generator: Step-by-Step Tutorial
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Graduate Writing Optical Fields: An Explanation by Niles
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Graduate Thin Lens Formula: Deriving 1/f = 1/S_O + 1/S_I
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Graduate Planewave scattering on metal wedge problem
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Undergrad Refraction and constant frequency
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Where can i buy monochromatic coloured filters(optics):
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Undergrad Why is resolving limited by wavelength?
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Undergrad Choosing the correct type of filter
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Undergrad Understanding Interference: Wave A & Wave B
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Graduate Standing wave interference patterns on liquid metals
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Graduate Frequency of the polarization of light
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Undergrad Is the speed of light truly the fastest velocity in the universe?
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Undergrad Counterintuitive result? Polarizers, Malus's Law
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Undergrad Distortion to correct farsightedness(Hyperopia)
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Graduate Diffuse Reflection vs. Scattering?
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Graduate Can a Hypothetical Perfectly Rigid Body Transmit Forces Faster than Light?
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Graduate Can you have an anti focal point of a lens?
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Graduate Does Speed Of Light Scale With Size?
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Graduate Does the Fabry Perot spectrometer's free spectral range change with distance?
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Graduate Radiance of a Lambertian emitter
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Graduate Photon Detectors: Absorption or Further Testing?
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Undergrad D2O (Deuterium Oxide) Referactive Index vs H2O (Water)
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High School Is it Possible to Change Light Color with Material?”
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Undergrad Why is the speed of light slower in substances compared to a vacuum?
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High School Understanding Optical Equivalent Path: Differences and Similarities
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Graduate Evanescent wave coupling between two prisms
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Undergrad Interference: Calculating the direction of the resultant wave
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Undergrad How Does Light Relate to Energy and Subatomic Particles?
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Graduate Is the Dual Nature of Light Really That Confusing?
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High School A question about speed of light and sunrise time
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Undergrad Unlock the Potential of Natural Oils: Light Theory and Car Wax"
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Undergrad N=c/v=λ0/λ (T doesn't change) and v of light is constant
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Undergrad The Speed of Light: Variance in Non-Vacuum Mediums
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Graduate Reflection at a conducting surface
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Undergrad Linear polarized light and polarisation
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Graduate Is Gravity a quantum state like light is?
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Undergrad Double-Split experiment with light
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Graduate Understanding Polarization and Phase Changes in Optical Systems
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Graduate The Mysteries of Faster-Than-Light Travel: A Physicist's Guide"
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Graduate Nothing is faster than Light, Right?
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High School Does Light Change Color When Refracted in Glass?
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High School Why does black color asorb light?
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Undergrad Best Shape for TIR: Glass Container | Optics Discussion
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Graduate Strain optic coefficient definition
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Graduate Derivation of Eikonal equations from Fermat's Principle
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Graduate Deflect Light: Electromagnetic Waves & Magnetic Fields
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Graduate Photons in amorphous glass slow because?
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Graduate Speed of light just after the Big bang?
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Undergrad Light Traveling in both Directions in a fiber optic cable
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