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Graduate Photon Bandwidth Frequency Limit: Determined?

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Graduate Superpositon of energies vs. Superposition of forces

  • kmarinas86
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High School Mirrors would fog up if i didnt turn the fan on

  • nacho-man
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High School Why is food cooked differently by microwaves than by an infra-red grill?

  • myrtleza
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Graduate Does Light Bend or Slow Down Due to Gravity and Medium Interactions?

  • billw_willy
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Undergrad Does polarization affect the results of the 2-slit experiment

  • edguy99
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Graduate Why does a photon transfer only partial energy in Compton scattering?

  • Orman
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Undergrad Can sound waves undergo total internal reflection like light in diamonds?

  • Chaos' lil bro Order
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Graduate How do photons form in fire and electricity if positrons aren't present?

  • Eraniamayomii
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Undergrad Can light waves be represented as long skinny rays in computer programming?

  • edguy99
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High School Using mirrors to bend reflections around a wall

  • jamieebruno
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Undergrad How can I accurately measure the diameter of a hole using digital photography?

  • Irja
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Graduate How to Accurately Measure Backscattered Beta Particles?

  • Download341
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Undergrad Does Carrying a Cellphone on a Waist Belt Reduce Microwave Radiation to the Brain?

  • Abiologist
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Graduate How Does Image Formation at Infinity Work with Converging Lenses?

  • fisico30
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Undergrad Difference between refraction and reflection in optics and sound waves

  • Gear2d
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Undergrad Why does light travel at varying speeds through different materials?

  • azzkika
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Undergrad How to Interpret L, x, y in Color Transmittance Reports?

  • metalrock
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High School Magnification in a Convex Lens: + or -?

  • Gear2d
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Undergrad Ballistic and Bullet Flight Path Calculation

  • synsol
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Graduate CasebyCase: Halfing the amplitude of light

  • renrut13
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Graduate Polarization in Interferometry

  • matheyrichs
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Graduate How does rescattered light stay directed through a dense material?

  • Phalanx
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Undergrad What is the relation between refractive index and wavelength in a prism?

  • Christa
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High School What is Magnitude in Physics?

  • nehach
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Graduate What is the ideal refractive index difference for achieving invisibility?

  • lanik05
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Undergrad How does black absorb all the wavelengths?

  • mkbh_10
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Graduate Do Excited Molecules Emit the Same Frequency They Absorb?

  • caybo
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Undergrad Why does a thrown frisbee stay airborne longer than a stone?

  • kenewbie
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Undergrad Thin Film Interference: Finding m Value

  • LamyJamy
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Graduate Optics (Parallax and Luminosity)

  • tuoni
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High School Can light waves directly produce sound or music?

  • LadyLRae
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Undergrad Calculating Bouncing Velocity from Tangent Angle in 2D Collision

  • hadyn
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Graduate Speed of Wire faster than Speed of Light?

  • ooloo
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Undergrad Does frequency change when light enters a higher index of refraction?

  • Gear2d
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Undergrad How Does Lens Power Correction Work for Nearsightedness?

  • sixpence
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Graduate Speed of light in a superconductor

  • Domenicaccio
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Undergrad Relative Permittivity and Refractive Index

  • iLIKEstuff
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Undergrad Can anything travel faster than the speed of light?

  • therector24
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Undergrad Can you attain light speed where light doesn't exist?

  • offtheleft
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Undergrad Does a photon's speed reach zero when reflecting off a mirror?

  • TeeTeeKnow
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Graduate What Are Direction Cosines in Light Scattering Theory?

  • iLIKEstuff
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High School Question: Why Does Compressed Air Cause Refraction?

  • RagingPineapple
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Undergrad Dragon flight and whether it would be possible

  • huggy bear
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Physics Experiment Equipment Resource?

  • daniel29208
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High School Key experiments revealing the nature of light

  • lemonde
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Undergrad Does the Speed of Light Change depending on different Light Frequencies?

  • PhysicsEnthusiast
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High School Why Don't I Hear Thunder When I See Lightning?

  • tuananh3ap
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Graduate Question regarding thin film interference

  • ugresearcher
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High School How is physics involved in the application of cameras?

  • parcerita
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Undergrad Why is light intensity at the film proportional to 1/N² in a camera lens?

  • r4nd0m
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Undergrad Why Do Letters Appear Reversed in Mirrors but Words Don't?

  • madness
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How i can build a cheap and big Laser ?

  • ze-ro
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Microwaves and Weird Neighbors

  • M40
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High School What is the Difference Between a Microwave Cavity and Chamber?

  • hydro2008
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High School Will two adjacent mirrors show two reflections or one?

  • cookiecrunch9
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High School Why Does Reflected Light Get Polarized But Transmitted Light Does Not?

  • sivasayanth
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Undergrad Laser aiming device for straight cue delivery in billiards

  • andytoh
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Graduate Estimate the power of the laser on board of Darth Vader's Death Star

  • Count Iblis
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Undergrad Do accelerating electrons in antennas emit radiation the same way as orbital transitions?

  • Vosh
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High School Constructive Interference: Height Difference Matter?

  • Quantom
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Undergrad Why do widely separated lightning systems in Oregon have synchronized strike rates?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate Can a single audio channel produce a 38000 Hz signal for IR transmission?

  • jumpjack
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High School Slight confusion about centripetal acceleration

  • ace123
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Undergrad Destructive Intereference Question

  • Quantom
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Undergrad Relationship between absorption and emission spectra

  • hechnal
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Undergrad How to detect the TE mode and TM mode?

  • yeyunxiaopan
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Undergrad Fermat's principle and Snell's law

  • Nick89
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Undergrad Two coherent beams crossing each other's path; what will be the effect?

  • plato_2
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Graduate Can alternating E and B fields at frequency f create visible light?

  • gareth
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High School How Can a Camera Be Made to Show Darkness Instead of Light?

  • briakei
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Undergrad Wave Equation in Space with Angle "p

  • prasannab13
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Undergrad How does the air polarise the light?

  • sharp910sh
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Undergrad How do I calculate the wavelength when combining two coherent laser beams?

  • engalaanabil
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Graduate Why does gas emit light, when light is shone on it?

  • sharp910sh
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Undergrad Consider a ray at the interface air and glass

  • Gamma
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Graduate Is it possible to make a gamma-ray laser?

  • Green Xenon [Radium]
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Undergrad Find the focal length of a concave lens using a convex lens?

  • jias
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Graduate Spherical wave in far field is a plane wave ?

  • broli86
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Undergrad Does Huygens principle violate energy conservation and cause beam spreading?

  • yoran
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Undergrad Resources for learning experimental laser lab procedures

  • ekrim
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High School Carbon footprint Turn your lights off - Does it really make a difference?

  • esmeralda4
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Undergrad Optical problem that eludes me

  • texnoz
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Undergrad Understanding Wave Refraction in Denser Media

  • Noj Werdna
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Undergrad Interference in thin films: why thin?

  • yoran
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Graduate Single slit diffraction / wave propagation

  • gcad
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High School Why is my face upside down on one side of a spoon?

  • wasia
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Graduate Can a photon travel forever without interacting with matter?

  • Ulysees
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Graduate Why can't you modulate light to shorter wavelengths like FM radio?

  • _Mayday_
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Graduate When is the term photon valid?

  • kwestion
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Graduate Deriving Velocity in Polar Coordinates

  • jbunten
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High School Building a telescope with 3 lenses and 1 mirror for class

  • Dgolverk
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Graduate What Is Zernike Mixing in Optical Materials?

  • mellifluidic
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Graduate Interference pattern from a streetlight ?

  • mangurian
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Graduate Problem with understanding polarization

  • neworder1
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High School Vibration Free Table for Holograms

  • NotMrX
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High School Why light from sun takes 8 minutes ?

  • mkbh_10
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Graduate Can gravity be used for teleportation if it acts instantaneously?

  • iedoc
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Undergrad Light intensity from a 300W bulb 50 feet away

  • switchex
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Graduate Why do we say photons travel ?

  • mkbh_10
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