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Undergrad Single-slit diffraction and wavelength
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Undergrad Just wondering about frequencies
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Undergrad Question about light and interference
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Graduate Wave Guides: Understanding Reality
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High School Light Dependent Resistor vs. Phototransistor
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Undergrad About White Light: Exploring Its Wavelengths
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Graduate What Are the Key Branches of Photon Scattering to Include in Your Report?
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Undergrad What Causes the Shimmering Network of Light in a Pool?
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High School Cause of Plastic Container Deformation in Microwave Oven
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Undergrad How Fast Do We Perceive Light Compared to Its Actual Speed?
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High School Uncover the Mystery: Why You See a Real Image in a Concave Mirror
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High School Why Does Black Light Illuminate White Objects?
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High School How and why does a mirror reflect light?
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Undergrad What else Albert Einstein's contributions in optic and photonics?
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Undergrad Please could sum1 give me a suggestion here
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Graduate Reflecting of reflection in relation to time
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Graduate Does sunlight push the Earth ever so slightly?
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Graduate Light Beam Reduction: Is It Possible?
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High School What Do Light Waves Travel Through?
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Undergrad Data can't move faster than the speed of light?
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Graduate Why We See Full Face of the Moon: Diffraction Theory?
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Graduate Uncovering Hidden Objects: The Power of Diffraction
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High School What are some interesting project ideas related to optics?
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Graduate From a photon's reference frame
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Undergrad Discover "Impossible Optics" from Mid '90s Invention TV Show
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High School Why does high power magnification result in a dim image?
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High School Shadow Color: The Science Behind Blue LED Light and Yellow Shadows
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Undergrad Light and time- what i think about it
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Undergrad Wave Length & Amplitude: Nature of Energy in a Single Wave
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Graduate Why does light seem to defy time?
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Undergrad What happens to energy after destructive interference of two waves?
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Undergrad I was wondering something about diffraction
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Graduate Calculate how much radiant power goes through an optical system
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Undergrad Laser Splitting: Get Help Developing a Device
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Undergrad Lightning strikes - safe in car, but
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High School How do we see things that don't create photons?
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Graduate Light questions (not wave/particle duality)
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Light Beam Emmiter: Is It Possible?
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Graduate Solving the Mystery of Hologram Interference Image
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Graduate Question on light intensity at the focus of a lens.
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High School Basic Concepts & Applications of Photonics
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Graduate Can you reverse transform a thin film diffraction pattern?
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Undergrad Is the Spectrum Always Consistent with the Source?
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High School Microwaves - finding the wavelength
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Graduate SASER is the acoustic analog of a laser
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High School About too much light in a room
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High School Why the water waves bend in diffraction?
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High School Can Vietnamese Students Explore Complex Physics Concepts?
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Undergrad Refraction, Why does the light re accelerate?
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Undergrad What caused the strobe effect on the raindrops during the thunderstorm?
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High School Why Does Mixing Blue & Yellow Create Green?
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High School How Does Sound Diffraction Affect What You Hear Through Barriers?
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High School I promise this is the last question
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Graduate Physics window experiment,please comment
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Undergrad Why Does Diffraction Occur Even When Wavelength Exceeds Aperture Width?
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Graduate Forces affecting the path of a photon
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Undergrad Deriving Power From Lightning - Is It Possible?
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Undergrad Transmission Coeff of Window Glass vs Wavelength?
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Undergrad Help with Mock Optics Experiment
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Graduate Can Pulse Laser Theory Unlock New Cutting Techniques Beyond 2 Inches?
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High School How do electrons travel in different mediums?
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Undergrad Optics Specialist Needed for "Fluid Light-Pipe" Project
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High School Why do some objects have colors while others don't?
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Undergrad Black holes 'attracting' light?
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Undergrad What Determines an Object's Transparency and Reflectivity?
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Graduate Digital holography - why not 3d?
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Undergrad Radiant Energy from Sun: Visible Light vs. IR
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High School How Does Light Speed Vary with Environment and Obstacles?
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Undergrad How Do You Convert 290mcd to Candelas/Meter Square?
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Undergrad Light in Non-Vacuum: Speed of Travel?
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Graduate Non-Linear Optics: American Approach for French Student
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Undergrad Why Doesn't Incident Light Interfere with Reflected Light in a Mirror?
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Undergrad Question: do e/b-fields effect light?
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Graduate When to Use TE, TM, & TEM Modes for Modeling Optical Fields
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Seeing Red and Blue: Is it Vision or Physics?
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Graduate What are the approximations made when applying the wave-equation to light waves?
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Undergrad What happens when the source of light rays is a mirror?
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Undergrad Laser intensity as a function of distance
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Undergrad When a beam of light is passed through a polarizer, it is polarized in
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High School Question about reflecting sunlight off a mirror
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Graduate Another speed of light: the function followed.
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Undergrad Can i use a prism to diffract(separate?) ultralight or microwaves
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Undergrad Do concentrated forms of light, such as a laser, have mass?
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Undergrad How does the curvature of the earth affect the speed of cell phone signals?
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Undergrad Calc Angle of Refraction in Opaque Drinking Glass Problem
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Graduate Metals, X-rays, and plasma frequency
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Undergrad Calculating Eye Resolution at Different Distances
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Undergrad Measuring Perception of Line Separation at Varying Distances and Light Levels
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Undergrad Diffraction of Light: θ and λ Relationship
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Graduate Rayleigh Refractometer index of refraction
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Undergrad Solid with Varying Refractive Index
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Undergrad When light travels from a less optically dense medium
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Undergrad Can I use inexpensive laser diodes to create white reflecting hologram ?
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Graduate How do Mirrors work on nano scales ?
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Graduate Light: Wave or Particle? - Reflection
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Undergrad Sunlight Intensity: Measuring for Window Facing South
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Graduate Energy conservation in interference phenomenon
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Undergrad What Happens If Both Laser Mirrors Are Fully Reflective?
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Graduate Is Photon Mass Zero a Scientific Reality or a Misconception?
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Undergrad A pyranometer, a device that measures sunlight intensity
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