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Undergrad Can Concentrating Solar Panels Achieve Higher Efficiency with Concave Mirrors?
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Graduate Is it possible to make a closed mirror system?
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Generate Holograms with a Simulator - Get Answers Now
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Graduate Math problem in Huygens-Fresnel principle
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Undergrad Why aren't interference filters also polarizers?
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High School Understanding Real and Virtual Images for Beginners
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Undergrad Wave passing medium containing discontinuities?
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Undergrad How does a laser beam propel objects in air?
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Graduate Is This a Standard Formulation of a Gaussian Beam?
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Undergrad Light velocity change in different medium
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Undergrad Does a light pulse get amplified when it goes to a less dense medium?
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Undergrad Light Reflection: Can Sunlight Take Craft Back to Launch?
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Graduate Ideal destructive interference of two beams - Where is the energy?
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Undergrad Propagation of light in a vaccuum?
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Undergrad Sunglasses which reflects like a mirror
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Graduate Photonic Crystal Fibres and COMSOL
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Undergrad Uncovering the Mystery of Bullet Flight: Investigating the Helix Theory
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Undergrad Travelling at the speed of light
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Undergrad Why Does an Object Appear Blue When All Other Frequencies are Absorbed?
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Undergrad What is the relationship between coherence and interference in wave propagation?
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Graduate How Is Huygens' Principle Derived from Basic Wave and Maxwell's Equations?
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Undergrad Do heavy and light cylinders roll the same?
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Undergrad Can Night Vision Devices Convert Reflected Frequencies Back to Original Colors?
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High School Can Laser Technology Outpace Radio Signals for Information Transmission?
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Undergrad Does Light Have Zero Length and What Does That Mean for Velocity?
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High School What do they mean by Light being a wave?
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Graduate Laser optical components/setup
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Graduate Interference of Light: Where Does the Energy Go?
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Undergrad Capturing light photons with the Hubble
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Undergrad Energy apparently equals mass times the speed of light squared
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Graduate Optics: Ray matrix for a thin lens
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High School Understanding How Infrared Thermometers Work
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Undergrad Calculating Impact Force of Freefalling Objects in Fenestration Testing
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Undergrad Uncertainty principle - light beam
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Graduate Light some interesting questions and an observation
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Graduate Black holes, speed of light and gravity oh my
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Graduate 180 degree out of phase reflection?
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Undergrad Prism Dispersion: Does Light Diffraction Follow Thin Film Rules?
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High School Have you ever wondered about the physics behind the diffraction of moonlight?
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Graduate Fraunhoffer Diffraction
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Undergrad Light Propagation: Electric & Magnetic Fields in Vacuum/Medium
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Graduate Travel Faster than a Photon: My 1st Forum Q
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High School Comparing Light Output of 60W Type A and Type B Incandescent Light Bulbs
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Graduate Where Can I Find Good Resources on Central Force and Scattering?
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Undergrad What is the weight-bearing capacity of lightweight aerogel material?
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High School Can a Modified Sound Card Measure the Speed of Light?
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High School Can We Light a Match on the Moon?
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Graduate Photon Questions: Elasticity, Gravity & Diffraction
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High School Why rainbow has a shape of arc and why its ends are bent down.
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Graduate Eye of Ellipses: Photographing Magnetic Lines of Constant Scalar Potential
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High School Understanding Human Color Perception
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Graduate Fresnel Diffraction Simulation Troubleshooting
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Undergrad What are Radiance and Irradiance and how do they differ?
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High School Total magnification of microscope
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Undergrad Contact Lens: How to focus light 1mm away
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Undergrad How to determine a lens width?
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High School Why did Newton believe light was a particle?
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Graduate Is regular light considered a soliton?
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Undergrad Understanding the Dual Nature of Light: Particle or Wave?
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Undergrad Light and Vision: Photon Direction
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Undergrad How can a black hole bend light?
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Undergrad A few general questions about Optics
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Undergrad Polarised 3D glasses and an LCD Monitor
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Undergrad Bullets in Flight: Understanding Rifling & Velocity Loss
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Undergrad Finding Green Light Wavelengths for Dissertation
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Undergrad Determining direction of wave propagation from the phase?
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Undergrad Refraction and fiber optic cable diameter
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High School How Does Glycerine Make a Bottle Invisible?
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Graduate Can Photons Create Black Holes?
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High School How do overhead projectors project black onto a screen?
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High School Does Light Travel in a Single Line or Cone-Like Receiving?
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Undergrad Why is diffraction most pronounced for objects on the order of the wavelength?
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Graduate Group delay measurement using Michelson Interferometer
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High School Color and visible light in general
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Undergrad Relationship between light amplitude and intensity
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Graduate Curving light undergoing redshift
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Undergrad Explanation of laser intensity
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High School Diffuse light - clear reflection
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Undergrad Material that blocks visible light but not uv light
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Graduate Intensity in a Double-Slit problem?
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High School Can microwaves burn metallic objects?
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High School Does anyone know a crystal with refractive index of water?
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High School Introductory demonstration materials
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Undergrad How could you influence the number of photons emitted from a metal
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High School How to determine rarer & denser medium for light?
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Undergrad Basic conceptual description of lightspeed having a limit
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High School Speed of light in denser and rarer medium.
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High School Understanding the Time Delay in Viewing Events on the Moon with Telescopes
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Slit for the Double Slit Experiment
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High School Measuring Light Speed - Is Light Massless?
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Undergrad Computing Flight Forces. Im getting so upset
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Graduate What is the significance of negative index of refraction in modern physics?
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Graduate How Far Must Someone Fall in a Cylinder to See the Entrance as a Dot of Light?
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Undergrad The Mystery of 99% Reflecting Mirrors: A Physics Perspective
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Undergrad Photographic 'Circular Polarisers': what are they?
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Graduate Optics Q : Diffraction Pattern from a Ronchi Ruling
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Undergrad Light Intensity and Number of Photons
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Graduate Is Dispersion Present in Expanding Cylindrical Waves of an Infinite Radiator?
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Undergrad Relationship between Refractive index and Inpedance
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Graduate Spin Polarization: Definition & Spintronics Logic Levels
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