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Graduate Strange Optics Ques: photon capture and reprod
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Graduate Do Photons Really Possess Mass?
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Undergrad Why is light reflected off road and water surfaces horizontally polarised?
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Graduate Question about travel-time (or time-of-flight)
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Undergrad Why is glass transparent? More details below.
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Undergrad Capillary action for non-polar substances?
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Undergrad Does Carrying an Umbrella Increase Your Chances of Being Struck by Lightning?
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High School Magnification; What's focal point
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High School What causes transparency effect in photos?
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Graduate Photons reflecting off mirrors, wheres the flaw?
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Undergrad About diffraction (conceptual problem)
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Undergrad Discover the Science Behind Why Diamonds Shine - Explained!
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Undergrad Are there any chemical reactions that can generate radio waves?
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Undergrad Can a Surface be Designed to Reflect Light Horizontally?
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High School Diffraction & Grating: Uses in Everyday Life
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High School Squinting at light bulbs, what are those lines?
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Undergrad Is there an invisible, solid material with the refractive index of air?
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High School Phenomena of reflection of light
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High School Paraxial Rays: Definition & Diagrams
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Graduate Variation of eikonal (phase) set to zero
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High School Why do we measure the angle of incidence or reflection
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High School Waves and Phases: Understanding 90 and 180 Degrees Out of Phase
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High School When two Lasers meet what happens
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Is there such thing as infinite magnitude of velocity?
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Undergrad How Does Bisecting a Lens Affect Its Focal Length?
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Undergrad How to measure the Intensity of Light?
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Graduate Can photons be accelated or do they always travel at one speed (speed of light)?
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High School Diffraction plane & image plane
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Graduate Superposition principle in arbitrary medium
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Undergrad How come light only reflects off surfaces and not internal planes?
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High School What is the actual cause of refraction?
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Undergrad Harnessing Sunlight Indoors for Sustainable Gardening
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Graduate Practical question- anyone w. experience w. BBO crystals?
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Undergrad Collimate Light from Mercury Arc Bulb for 5cm Circular Beam
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Graduate Applying Huygens's principle to light propagation
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High School Clarification of White Light/Superposition
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High School Can We Store Lightning Energy?
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Undergrad How to calculate laser thrust?
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Undergrad Can a Tower Emit Light by Changing its Frequency to Match Visible Light?
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Graduate Polarization of Electromagnetic Waves: A Quantum Perspective
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High School Why does the direction of light change during refraction if the speed
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Undergrad Understanding the Airy Disk Equation: Lambda in Medium or Vacuum?
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High School How can a thin mirror show such vast depths?
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Undergrad How Effective Is a Fresnel Lens in Transporting Light Through Fiber Optics?
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High School Tracing the Light Path of a Green Laser Pointer
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Undergrad How to calculate radius of curvature of a reflector
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High School Why does light behave differently when reflecting off flat and curved surfaces?
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Graduate Optical Detection of Earth's Coriolis Force?
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High School Magnitude and Light brightness question
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High School What is the 'path difference' in waves
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Graduate What is the difference between a quantum and photon?
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Mirror phenomenon after a shower
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Undergrad Confused about phase difference
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Graduate How Does Light Behave Before Passing Through a Slit in Diffraction Experiments?
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Undergrad Wave interference in a car at speed
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High School How does light illuminate objects? (help me in a debate)
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Undergrad Measuring Light Output - Howdy Yall
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Undergrad Need ideas for solar/atmospheric experiment
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High School Magnitude vs Direction: Difference & Definition
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Undergrad Simple radio wave reflection question
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Graduate Light Speed Internet: Questions & Answers
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High School Discover the Power of 5.8GHz Laser Technology for Efficient Radio Links
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Undergrad Why is wave diffraction around object better at longer wavelength?
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Undergrad Derivation of Law of Refraction
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High School Practical Report For Investigation to flight (wind tunnel)?
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Graduate When emitting a photon, does the body exert an opposite force?
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Graduate Complex refractive index mesurement from reflectivity data
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Undergrad Amplitude will change after unpolarised wave passes through a polariod
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Graduate Traveling at the speed of light and time travel?
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Undergrad Why concave reflectors work better than a plane reflector
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Undergrad Once to light never back again
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Graduate So confused about reflection from metal surfaces
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Graduate Is a refrigeration laser thermodynamically possible?
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Undergrad Circular motion - Force perpendicular to velocity does not change magnitude.
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Graduate Snell's law with complex n, interpret complex angle?
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Graduate Different treatment of E and B field in Brewster angle derivation
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Undergrad How come there is visible light in Uv lights?
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Graduate Constructive interference - energy non-conservation?
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High School How does refraction of light take place?
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Undergrad Questions regarding the constant of light and photons
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Undergrad Airborne Laser Testbed: Physics & Why Airborne?
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Undergrad Why do glass and crsytals absorb light?
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High School Is there a shortcut for finding theta4 using Snell's Law when theta2 is known?
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Graduate Looking backwards through a holographic diffuser
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Undergrad Speed of light and Time Travel
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Undergrad Does the Doppler Effect Differ Between Sound and Light?
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Undergrad How do I asses the % of light transmission that passes through glass
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Undergrad What Does "Opaque" Mean in Metrology?
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Graduate Do Perfectly Collimated and Monochromatic Beams Show Interference Fringes?
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Graduate Orthogonality of time dependent vector derivatives of constant magnitude
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Graduate What Is the Mass of Sunlight in a Thought Experiment?
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Undergrad Furthest distance a light source can be seen
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Undergrad If infared energy makes things hotter, why do microwaves use radio waves?
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High School Why can't we feel certain kinds of waves?
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Velovity of a light beam in an arc
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Undergrad How Do X-Rays Reveal Bone Structure and Can Their Settings Be Adjusted?
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Graduate Describing Color Intensity: What Model Should I Use?
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Undergrad Geometric optics and photography
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Undergrad Magnitude and direction of force
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Undergrad Can Light Be Trapped Between Mirrors and Is There Energy Loss?
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