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Young's double slit experiment
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Graduate What Causes the Color Shifts and Spherical Aberration in Eyeglasses?
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Undergrad How can refraction be explained using Fermat's principle?
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Undergrad Anyone Interested in Discussing My Young's Two-Slit Experiment Results?
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Graduate Reaching the Speed of Light: Effects in Atmosphere & Space
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Undergrad How does the refractive index change with the wavelength of light?
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Graduate Analyzing Spectra: Comparing Visible/NIR Stars
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Undergrad Chromatic Dispersion: What is It & How Does it Help?
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Can we create artificial lightning?
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Graduate What is the formula for calculating radiant intensity from an LED onto a body?
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High School A Closer Look at Microwave Pizzas & Their Cardboard Disks
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Graduate Tunable Fabry-Perot interferometer
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High School Mysterious Ball Lenses: What Are They & What Are They Used For?
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Undergrad How Do Polygonal Mirrors Affect Scan Systems Without Lenses?
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Undergrad Circular polarized glasses, how it works
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High School Material for a high transmittance Prism and where to Buy
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Graduate Intensity Profile of Lambert's Scatterer
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High School Probability of being struck by lightning
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Undergrad Is Your Model of Light an Effective Way to Visualize Electromagnetic Waves?
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Graduate [Ray Tracing] Wavefronts & Reception Sphere
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High School Will these lightbulbs light up?
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Undergrad Creating visible light using an antenna
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Graduate Angle of Incidence and Reflection.
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Undergrad Difference in quasi elastic scattering and non elastic scattering
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High School Building Materials Refractive Index?
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Graduate The Meaning of TM11 and TE10/TE01 Modes
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Undergrad What is the medium that light waves move through in order to propagate?
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Undergrad Does a Webcam Record Infinity When Pointed at a Computer Screen?
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Undergrad Can we calculate the optical illusion?
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High School Mirrored Optics Phenomenon Explained While Swimming
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High School Infrared laser - remote control
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Graduate Does the speed of light affect the age of the universe?
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Graduate Diffraction by a perfectly conducting cylinder using UTD?
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Undergrad Reduce light scattering by index matching
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High School The vibration direction of light wave
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Undergrad Youngs two slit experiment problems
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High School Help With Grade 11 Physics Camera Project
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High School 10.1 megapixel camera, object is 18,877.90 feet away from me, can I see it?
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Undergrad What Makes Candle Flame Light Thermal Instead of Atomic?
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Undergrad Aligning Optical Axis of 2 Lens Assemblies
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High School Why is the sky blue and not purple?
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Graduate Optimizing Laser Beam Divergence for Spot Size Control
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Graduate Pacemakers and lightning bolts
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Undergrad A rule for lightning that’s like the inverse square
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Graduate How do photons with different energies travel at the same speed?
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High School Bright flashlight the emits white light
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High School Does the reflection of light on water affect the color of objects?
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Undergrad Diffraction of Waves through a circular aperture
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Undergrad What determines the velocity of light?
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High School Can Oil Be Heated in a Microwave Oven? Discover the Science Behind It
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Graduate Polarizaition and susceptibility
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High School Is light a type of matter and can it be affected by gravity?
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Undergrad X-ray Fluorescence angle question.
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Undergrad Why metal sparks in a microwave oven
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Undergrad Are Photons Waves or Particles in a Massless World?
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High School Is Ultraviolet Light Really 'Beyond' Violet Light?
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Undergrad Dispersion of light in a prism confusing
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Graduate What Are the Mysteries of Photons and Their Behavior?
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Undergrad Can You See Color in Complete Darkness Due to Reflection?
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I don't remember the name of this optical device
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High School What inventions (or other wise) use light refraction?
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Graduate Ray transfer martix of interface
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Undergrad Why does looking through a traw improve the focus or resolution you see?
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Graduate Reflection and Absorbtion of Microwaves, also Masers
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High School Can a Negative Refraction Index Enable Invisibility Cloaks?
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Graduate Polarization of Light: Any Direction Possible?
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Undergrad Age of Light: How is it Estimated?
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Graduate Brightness of light & light model
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Undergrad Sending information on light waves
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Graduate Rectangular Waveguide Field in Polar Coordinates
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Graduate New Theory of Traveling at Speed of Light: Is It Possible?
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Undergrad Comparing Rayleigh & Tomson Scattering: What's the Difference?
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High School What is the temperature of air during a corona discharge?
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Graduate Does Beam Interference Depend on Longitudinal Distance Post-Beamsplitter?
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Undergrad What's the Difference Between AR Coatings and IR Filters?
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High School Light and Time plus the distance - TIME to get from source to here
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Graduate Does space resist the passage of light?
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Does Black Light Really Exist?
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Undergrad So is there any other use to Young´s interferometer?
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Graduate How Do Radiance Units and F-Number Relate in Optics?
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Graduate If you have interest in quantum optics
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Graduate Laser Physics: Saturation, Two-Level System & Pump Field
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Graduate Are Protons Visible? Examining Light & Spectrum
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Graduate Huygens' principle and phase shift
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Graduate What Happens to Light When It Reflects Off a Mirror?
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Undergrad Light: Transverse Waves or Photons?
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Undergrad The Young's double slit exp. and some general waves
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Graduate Question concerning polarisation
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Graduate Optical problem concerning space mirror.
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Undergrad Where does light get reflected on a conductor?
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Graduate Clarification needed in Spectroscopy - Thanks
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Graduate [Q]Is field made by Polarization different from external field?
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Undergrad Need Help Finding Ciddor Equation? Ask Here!
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Undergrad Traveling at the Speed of Light
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Learn About Lightning and Motion - Williamson Labs
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Undergrad What Exerts a Force on a beam of Light?
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Undergrad How Do You Distinguish Between Interference and Diffraction in Wave Experiments?
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Undergrad Understanding Phase Shift in Wave Light
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Graduate Why Do Lightwaves Penetrate Salt Water While Radiowaves Cannot?
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