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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 What is spin polarization and how does it define logic levels in spintronics?

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Graduate Why is refracted intensity 50% at Brewster's angle with unpolarized light?

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Undergrad Where does light get energy to accelerate leaving glass?

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High School Why Aren't My New LED Headlights Working?

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Polarizing radar waves with egg slicers

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Graduate The acceleration of mass using light

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High School What causes the difference in wavelengths of light?

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Undergrad Recalling the Equation for Slit Width in a Double Slit Interference Experiment

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Undergrad Does the inverse square law apply to electromagnetic radiation and photons?

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Tiny hexagonal spots visible inside a laser spot on a wall

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Undergrad Objective Back focal plane diameter

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High School Can light produce darkness and can noise procude quiteness 4

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Graduate Measuring components of circularly polarised light.

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High School Is Light Considered a State of Matter?

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Undergrad Why does shining light through a hologram project an image on a wall?

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Undergrad Does refraction in a Fresnel biprism change the laser wavelength?

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High School What is plane polarized light used for?

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Graduate What was the result of the Gravity Probe B mission?

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Undergrad If light has mass, and is a wave

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Undergrad Why can't sodium vapour lamp be used in spectrometer experiment

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Undergrad Refractive Index: Methods for Determining Beyond Newton's Rings

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Undergrad Why does the wave equation change between sine and cosine forms?

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Graduate How do reflection and emission differ at the atomic scale in metals?

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Undergrad Light velocity, wavelength, and frequency

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High School Why does myopia appear in mirror reflections of distant objects?

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Graduate Why Do Molecules Absorb Photons at Combined Frequencies v1 + v2?

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Undergrad Solving Refraction Optics Puzzle for Color Project

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High School Do sunblock lotions reduce solar cell output?

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Graduate Young's Double Slit - Fringe Width

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Graduate Designing a lens to focus at 15mm film plane with 60mm focal length

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Undergrad Why is reflected light polarized at Brewster's angle?

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Undergrad Welcome to Coherent Wave Explanation

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Graduate Single slit diffraction interference

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Undergrad Does Light Bend in an Electro-Magnetic Field?

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High School Metal inside a microwave oven -> ice?

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High School Relative Velocity of running towards a mirror

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High School Y ICE doesnt melt when placed in microwave oven?

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Graduate Can a prism separate two different waveforms with the same spectrum?

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High School Why is silver percieved as grey in colour?

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High School Is light a wave AND/OR a particle

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High School If light is a constant then gravity is also right?

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Graduate How Does Light Intensity Vary with Distance from an Incoherent Extended Source?

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Undergrad How fast do gravity, magnetism, and nuclear forces propagate?

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High School What gives objects their color?

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Undergrad Optical Phenomena with White Wine and Glass

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Undergrad Creating 3D holograms in air with intersecting laser beams

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High School Getting Started with Lens Design

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Undergrad Amount of light needed to capture images

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Graduate Interference between different mode of light

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High School How Do Mirrors Create the Illusion of Depth?

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Graduate Is the speed of light truly unattainable?

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Graduate Airy Disk Patterns: Quality Criteria

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Graduate Extinction/Absorption/Transmission spectra

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Undergrad Why do we see 2 waves in interference instead of 3 or 4?

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High School Light passing through the normal of a surface

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Undergrad Imaging horizontally through the atmosphere

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High School Alternator which is light in weight

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Graduate Can Superposition Be Applied to a Single Charge in Different Dielectric Media?

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Undergrad Why do ripples appear to move backwards with a higher strobe frequency?

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Undergrad Monitoring and Stopping Radio Waves

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Graduate Red Shift and Blue Shift: Is It Possible?

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Undergrad Speed of light is set to be 299,792,458 m/s

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Undergrad How does LLoyd's mirror works?

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Graduate Cryogen-cooled x-ray tube anode

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Graduate What's the actually meaning of phase change?

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Graduate Faster than light Information Possible?

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Undergrad Does light in a perfectly reflective sealed box accumulate and cause pressure?

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High School Is a mirage caused by refraction or total internal reflection?

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Undergrad Diffuse reflection of infrared light around 850nm

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Undergrad Refraction and the apparent slowing down of light

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High School Why does light travel so fast?

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Graduate Size and distance of different wavelengh photons?

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Undergrad In what medium do light, energy, and matter exist?

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High School Why is there a shine around the moon at night?

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High School How Can You Tell if Your Glasses Have High-Index Lenses?

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Undergrad Why does glass transmit short wavelengths but reflect long wavelengths?

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Undergrad Why can you use a metal rack in a microwave if it doesn't touch the sides?

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High School How can I prevent my LED lights from blowing out on my car?

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Undergrad Do Photons Have Mass or Not?

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Graduate Why is Glass Transparent to Photons?

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High School Does light really slow down in a medium or just bounce around?

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High School How do electromagnetic waves combine into a single wave?

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Graduate Proof that the speed of light is constant?

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Graduate Speed of light in a moving medium

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Undergrad Physics Faq clarifiaction - light duality

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Graduate Questions about lights contradicting properties

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High School What is Intensity of Ray? Where to Get Info?

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Undergrad What does off-axis mean and how does it cause coma?

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High School Why does an object reflect specific wavelengths of light?

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Undergrad Propagating uncertainty in trigonometric functions for angle measurements

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High School Can the magnitude of vector be negative?

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Undergrad Absorbance of UV light by glass

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Undergrad How to change the polarization of the light

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Graduate Compton vs. Raman vs. Thomson Scattering

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Undergrad Dispersion/Refraction, but WHY?

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Graduate Do photons really have a gravitational field like matter?

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