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Undergrad Light Absorption Mechanism: Electrons, IR, UV Heating
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Undergrad Color changing beads under cellophane
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Undergrad Calculation of size from images at unknown distance
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High School The Mystery of Light in a Box: Where Does It Go?
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Undergrad Understanding Light in a Sheet of Glass
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Undergrad Fresh water and contact lenses
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Undergrad In michelson interferometer, does amplitude of of two waves is
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High School Question: Can Sound Waves Produce Light?
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Graduate What determines the refractive index of a material?
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Graduate Does Light Experience Time Differently Than We Do?
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Where to buy cheap plastic lenses?
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Graduate Understanding Light Scattering: The Role of Nitrogen Molecules
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Graduate Question about refractive index and momentum
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Undergrad Can Humans Ever See Beyond the Visible Light Spectrum?
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Undergrad Why do red light waves bend less when passing through a prism?
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Undergrad Making a Hologram and Diffraction
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Undergrad Why photons can't afford more than light speed ?
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Graduate Xe Arc Lamp Safety: IR NIR Risk Analysis
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Undergrad Intensity of light vs amplitude
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Graduate Does light have a frequency limit?
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Undergrad Rainbows and refraction of light
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Undergrad If light does not experience time, why does it take time to get here?
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High School Do 3D Glasses Use Diffraction?
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Graduate What Happens When a Photon Collides with a Proton in Glass?
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High School What Affects the Energy of a Photon?
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Graduate Photons Debate: Is There an Authentic Special Case?
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High School Why Can't We See Our Face in Newspapers & Walls?
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Graduate Likelihood of light being absorbed/re-emitted in 50 light years
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Graduate What Would Happen if a Photon Was Caught Between Two Colliding Black Holes?
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High School Why do certain objects reflect certain colors and not others?
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Graduate The medium that light travels through is the EM field
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Undergrad Is RGBY TV Technology a Game Changer for Color Accuracy?
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High School Light Wave/Particle: Newton vs. Hooks
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Undergrad What is the Intensity of Light from a Cylindrical Source?
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Undergrad UV Spectroscopy - Absorbance vs transmission
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Undergrad Intensity & Amplitude of Gaussian Beam
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Undergrad What units does incident light have in UV spectroscopy
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Undergrad Fluid mechanics : Barometer - slight confusion.
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High School Why Does the Sky Look Blue? Rayleigh Scattering
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Undergrad Explaining Refraction: Hot vs. Cold Air
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Undergrad Can a highspeed camera show a laserbeam moving?
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Graduate Finding Normal Vector to Plane at Intersection Point for HeNe Laser Beam Path
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High School Please explain the difference between holography and holograms. I have
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Undergrad Transmitted colour of a solution
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Graduate Does a photon experience time?
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Graduate Mixing Light: Red+Green=Yellow? QED, Superposition & Photons
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High School Explaining the Hologram Effect - fawk3s
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Undergrad Illuminative Thrust: Can Light Provide Measurable Propulsion?
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Undergrad Circular polarization through a linear polarizer
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Undergrad Can 3-D Interference Patterns Exist in Real Life?
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Graduate Is blue shift a potential problem for near light speed travel?
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Undergrad Interference pattern with some fringes missing
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Graduate E-field of a laser pulse and Intensity
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High School Do Holograms Reflect on Surfaces Like Clear Floors?
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Undergrad Why Doesn't My Homemade Nitrogen Tube Light Up in the Microwave?
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Graduate Light: Speed and Sight Dilemma
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Graduate One has to wonder about photon interaction, and when to think of them
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Undergrad Mirror-Mirages: The Science Behind the Magic
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Graduate Travel back in time, with the help of light?
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Undergrad About light interacting with matter
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Undergrad First order fringes being reflected back to the 0 order
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Undergrad Fiber Optic Illumination System Research: Calculating Power & Length
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Graduate What Causes Electrons to Emit Both Waves and Particles?
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Graduate Other Special Speeds? (than light)
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High School What does a light 'filter' do?
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Graduate Single slit diffraction minima formula misunderstanding
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High School How long can a light ray travel
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Undergrad Radio Waves & Interaction with Matter
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Graduate What is the Intensity Distribution in Young's Experiment with Light?
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Graduate Near ballistic light/photon interference
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Undergrad Optics: Soap Film and Other Things
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High School Light seems to bend around objects but why?
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Undergrad Photodiodes vs LEDs: Gallium Arsenide Sensitivity
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Graduate Destructive Interference and the Conservation of Energy
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Graduate Wavefront Simulation using Geometry Optics and Physical Optics
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Undergrad Light Speed in Atmosphere: Does It Regain Energy? | Explained
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Undergrad Why Does Time Seem to Slow Down in High-Stress Situations?
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High School Is Light a Wave or a Series of Pulses?
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High School Can Adding a Lens to a Small Solar Dish Increase Its Heat Output?
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Graduate What Happens to Starlight When Traveling Faster Than Light?
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Undergrad Visibility of IR light from remote controls
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Undergrad Comparing Atomic Gas and Semiconductor Lasers
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Undergrad Can Two Violins Create Perfect Harmony Without Destructive Interference?
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Undergrad Bernoulli's equation and high velocity flights
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Undergrad Will two out-of phase lights cancel out?
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High School How does a homopolar motor work?
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Graduate Optical Modeling Software for Refraction, Focusing & Wavelength Dependence
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High School Why does oil show so many colors?
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High School Looking For A Solid Material Light Diffuser - Terminology?
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Undergrad Scattering of Light: Definition & Explanation
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Graduate Understanding Laser Coherence Lengths and Improving Coherence
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Graduate Light Interference: Lasers & Electrons
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Undergrad What Causes Lightning Rods to Buzz?
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High School What are the physics in a kaleidoscope?
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Undergrad Single and double slit diffraction formulae
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High School Unraveling the Mystery of Concave Mirrors: Understanding Inverted Virtual Images
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Undergrad Speed of light through a prism
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High School Does the frequency of light changes when it go through a prism
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Graduate Does Compton Scattering Have No Effect on Electron Energy and Velocity?
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Undergrad Why is it that diffraction is greatest when slit is close to size of wavelength?
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