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What are the properties and behavior of photons?
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Long Wave Photons: Evidence for Low Energy Light Waves?
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Interactions of Photons with Matter
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Would Homopolar Generators Work with Magnet as Disc?
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If speed of light is constant, how does prismatic color shift occur?
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Is the Diffraction Pattern from Slits Influenced by Topmost Atomic Layers?
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Emission or Absorption of a Photon - Dipole Needed?
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Is Light a Particle or a Wave?
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Physics and Lasers: Do You Own One?
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X-ray fluorescent screens and film contrast
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Fermat's principle light and time
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X-Ray lines from inner shell ionisation
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Why Does Light Have Different Energy Levels? Explained
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How light produce? and why we can see it?
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Hyperbolic Lenses: Abberation-Free?
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Optical Lens Selection for 612nm Laser Source
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Overcoming Lightning: Price Issue or Something Else?
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Changing the direction of light
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Diffraction diffusion effusion differences
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Fresnel Diffraction: Explaining Zero Intensity at Center
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Single Slit Diffraction Patterns: When & Why?
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Spherical glass object with index of refraction N
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Light's reflection - wats ur perception?
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Exsistance before the speed of light hits- question for you.
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Can Sound Actually be Faster Than Light?
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When bulb light passes through a prism
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What is the loss percentage of standard glass mirrors in multiple reflections?
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Possible for a torch to light up a wall
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Do Photons Have Mass? Explained for the Noob
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Thin Film Interference | Observing Puddles of Oil on Pavement
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Can impurities or density in glass affect the speed of light?
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Can Light Be Slowed? IBM Readies Silicon Chip
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C is only a component of light speed?
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Same focus for all circular lenses?
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Do Particle-Antiparticle Annihilations Produce Photons?
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Can Photons Really Split into Multiple Photons?
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Debunk me, please #2 (lasers/masers)
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What Causes Lattice-Like Aberrations in a Gaussian Laser Beam Path?
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Explaining Diffraction of Waves & Its Role of Wavelength
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Light Particles: Smallest Known Particles and Their Differences
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Light Spread: Laser Optics vs. Physics?
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Super Sonic Flight: Frequency Changes in Mach Cone & Shockwave
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Easy way to remember imaging properties of lens?
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Understanding Light: The Duality of Particles and Waves
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Why do motorless cars prioritize light weight over heavier weight?
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Maximizing Photon Energy: Measuring Electron's Energy Potential
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What happens to light trapped in a closed sphere?
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Does light change speed in Earth's atmosphere?
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Can Single Photons Produce Interference Patterns in Young's Experiment?
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How can Fourier Optics be used to analyze and explain experimental physics?
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Why don't we see a change in color when looking at a mirror?
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Fluorescent Lights: Benefits & Eye Health Effects
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What exactly does polarization of light mean?
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Can the index of refraction of a substance be altered by an external action?
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Melt a Perfect Mirror: Atomic Mechanisms of Reflection
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Alter the Speed of Light: What Does Light Travel Through?
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Mirror Reflection: Left-Right Exchange Explained
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Diffraction: Distinguishing Fresnal & Fraunhofer Diffraction
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Why does the sun generate white light?
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Relation between light and sound speed
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Can anyone recommend a book on laser ring gyroscopes?
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Laser Pulse 10 Nanosecond: Explained
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Cosmic particles result in lightning
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Can light be trapped indefinitely in a mirrored sphere?
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Is it the meadiem Light waves effect?
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Can You See Other Stars While Sitting on the Sun?
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Does Light Have Mass or Is It Just Energy?
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How Do Double Concave Mirrors Create a Floating Image?
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What is the Damping Term of a Photon?
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French scientists discover method to change the speed of light.
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Lens Aberrations: 1st, 3rd & 2nd Orders Explained
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Young's double slit experiment using polarised light
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Why does an open ended column reflect sound?
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Mirror Image Problems in Electrodynamics
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The Sun's Light: 8mins, 2degrees & Us
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Home Depot/ Radio Shack speed of light?
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Space Ships faster than light.
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Does a photon correspond to one wavelength of a wave
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Is lightning caused by ice particles?
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Ray of light travels from an optically denser medium
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Apparent speed of light in transparent medium
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Dynamics, polar coordinate system
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Stunning Fish Optics: How Fish See Above the Water
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What is the physics of a lighting ball?
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Create Laser-Like Light Beam: Is It Possible?
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What Causes Light Waves to Destroy Each Other in Interference?
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Simple Diffraction: Deriving Equations with Phasors
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Adjustment of optics resources
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What Causes Total Internal Reflection?
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How Does Focal Length Affect the Focus Point of a Lens?
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Interference between non-sinusoidal waves
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What Happens to Light when Heated - Baking Samosas
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Is light composed of strings ?
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Eye Safety with Lasers: 15 mW & Fiber Coupling
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Mysterious Laser Beam Dots: What Could It Be?
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Diffraction occurs also for water waves or only for light and matter?
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Lightning strikes a swimming pool
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Quanta vs. Photon: What's the Difference?
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Create a Laser Listening Device: Get Started Here!
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Scientists cover the mirror with a stratum that doesn't hold water
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