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Graduate Question about two-stage light gas guns
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Undergrad Acoustic reflections from an elliptical wall in Urbino city (Italy)
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Undergrad Reflection of inverted waves to form a standing wave
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Undergrad Differences between X-rays and Gamma rays
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Undergrad Where does this formula for absorption cross section come from?
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High School What is the Definition of a Candela?
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Graduate Can you calculate optical density from permittivity and permeability?
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Undergrad Why does a divergent lens create an interference pattern?
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Apparatus for a polarization filter rotator dial
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High School Does Motion Affect Perceived Wavelength and Light Speed?
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Undergrad Waves and phase shifts (attempting to learn physics)
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Graduate Can Two Laser Beams with Different Phases Interfere?
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Undergrad Red-orange skies and wildfires
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High School Why can't light pass through to the dark side of a window?
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Graduate Kramers-Kronig relation for refractive index
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High School The Physics of Color Perception
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Undergrad Image in a glass sphere (Ray Optics)
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Graduate Radar Reflection: Charged vs Non-Charged Objects
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Graduate Brain function & bipolar: fluid volume & speed of information in tubes
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High School Can we connect two laser sources to make a stronger beam with a larger radius?
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Undergrad Do two light waves with difference frequencies connect when they meet?
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High School Does the Torricelli Vacuum Experiment Prove the Strength of Vacuum Forces?
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Undergrad Measuring Reflectance with a Digital Camera
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High School Light interacting with Matter -- Does the wavelength make a difference?
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Graduate Please Explain My Polarized Light Experiments
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Undergrad Light speed and refractive index
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Graduate Controlling output light power by constructive/destructive interference
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Undergrad What is the logic behind the mirror symmetry method of solving circuits?
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High School How will light react in this situation....
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High School Why do shadows change shape when light is shone on them?
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Graduate How did Becquerel discover the connection between phosphorescence and X-rays?
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Graduate Maximum reception/transmission criteria for Conical Horn Antennas
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High School Can We Measure Diffraction Intensity Using Huygens' Principle?
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Graduate Why do people refer to the "fast axis" vs. "slow axis" of Diode Lasers?
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Graduate Concentric Meniscus Lenses Design
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Undergrad Insight into polar coordinates (Newtonian mechanics)?
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Graduate What Causes Molecules to Aggregate Over a Fiber in Optical Trapping?
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Undergrad Why does light take a longer path in a rarer medium?
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Graduate Why does the amount of Refraction depend on wavelength?
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Graduate Modes of laser propagation in cylindrical optics
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Graduate Reflection and transmission of waves in a medium of nonuniform density
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Undergrad Is the length of the arm r in a polar coordinate a function of the angle?
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Graduate A particle moving with zero radial acceleration in polar coordinates
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Undergrad My 50 year old Science book says that Black is the absence of all color
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Graduate Elliptical facet cylindrical optical fiber - Mathieu equation
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Graduate Classically, how can I explain Reflection?
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Graduate How to explain TE20 mode in a rectangular waveguide from reflection
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Undergrad Young's double slit experiment -- Question about this wavefront diagram
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Undergrad Focus or parallelize the light from an LED
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Undergrad Internal reflection equation question
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Graduate Interference of light by splitting the wavefront and recombining
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High School Are Polycarbonate Sunglasses Effective Against UV Rays?
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Graduate What are the key considerations for imaging with a condenser fresnel lens?
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Undergrad Understanding Zero-G Flight Physics: How Men Navigate Curved Paths in Airplanes
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Undergrad Geiger Counter and ultraviolet light sources
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Undergrad Y-component of the force vector in turning flight
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Undergrad Can you make a more focused beam by using convex and concave lens?
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Undergrad Raytracing Programs: Find Under $1000 | Fritz
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Undergrad Thickness of dark wet spots on drying dishes
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Graduate Some Flight Calculations and the Motion of the Earth
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Undergrad Size of a light beam before and after Refraction
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Graduate Photon wavelengths and frequencies
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Undergrad How Should Light Be Illuminated in Spectrometer Designs for Liquid Analysis?
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Graduate Can anyone explain this derivation of the variable mass equation?
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Undergrad Brewster's angle and the intensity of reflected light
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Undergrad Strange optical phenomenon: lighting a candle in front of a TV screen
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Undergrad Transmission and absorbance of materials in the deep UV
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Undergrad What is the lifetime of a photon in a medium?
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Undergrad Optical wireless communication ideas
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Undergrad Effect of stacking diffraction gratings
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High School Refraction of Light: Myth or Reality?
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High School Spectral Lines: Scrambling & Differentiation
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Undergrad Doppler effect and how it affects the light spectrum
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Graduate Trapping stiffness of optical tweezers
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Graduate Frustrated Total Internal Reflection
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High School Order of a dark fringe in Young's double slit experiment
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Graduate Polarization of elliptical fiber modes
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Undergrad What is the meaning of polarization ratio?
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Graduate Rearranging the equation for the cutoff condition in optical fibers
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Undergrad Light Reflection and Particle Size
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Graduate Evanescent field of a waveguide
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Undergrad How to find the length of a vector expressed in polar coordinates?
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Graduate Polarization and intensity of a Gaussian beam
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Undergrad Real Fresnel diffraction experiment
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Undergrad Why is the edge of the light from my flashlight beam so blurry?
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Graduate Wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) spectroscopy
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Undergrad What Are the Key Differences Between Fresnel and Fraunhofer Diffraction?
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High School Ripple Tank Refraction: Frequency Effect on Angle & Speed?
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Graduate Evanescent and Gradient force on an optical waveguide
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Graduate Huygens Principle - how to explain this with classical language?
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High School Glass in flatbed scanner transparent to UV-C (~254nm)?
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Undergrad A question about different lens setups imaging a rotating stick
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Undergrad Is the diffraction grating formula wrong?
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Undergrad Ray Diagram for an Experimental Lens Systems
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Undergrad Photographing diffraction grating interference patterns
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Graduate Diffraction tomography, inverse scattering
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Graduate Blazed Gratings and Littrow Mounting
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Undergrad Using polar coordinates in 1-dimensional problems
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Graduate Does the Silicon Nitride Waveguide Have a Cladding?
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Undergrad Refractive index of a prism using a spectrometer
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