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High School Is the beam from these Class IIIB lasers truly visible without any added medium?
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High School How to recreate 1st prize photo of the Einstein Year Award?
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Undergrad C is only a component of light speed?
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High School Theoretical Black and White Filter
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Undergrad Same focus for all circular lenses?
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Undergrad Do Particle-Antiparticle Annihilations Produce Photons?
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Graduate Can Photons Really Split into Multiple Photons?
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Undergrad Debunk me, please #2 (lasers/masers)
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Graduate What Causes Lattice-Like Aberrations in a Gaussian Laser Beam Path?
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Undergrad Explaining Diffraction of Waves & Its Role of Wavelength
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Undergrad Light Particles: Smallest Known Particles and Their Differences
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High School Light Spread: Laser Optics vs. Physics?
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Graduate Super Sonic Flight: Frequency Changes in Mach Cone & Shockwave
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High School Easy way to remember imaging properties of lens?
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High School Understanding Light: The Duality of Particles and Waves
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Undergrad Why do motorless cars prioritize light weight over heavier weight?
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Graduate Maximizing Photon Energy: Measuring Electron's Energy Potential
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Undergrad What happens to light trapped in a closed sphere?
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High School Does light change speed in Earth's atmosphere?
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Undergrad Can Single Photons Produce Interference Patterns in Young's Experiment?
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Graduate How can Fourier Optics be used to analyze and explain experimental physics?
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Undergrad Why don't we see a change in color when looking at a mirror?
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Fluorescent Lights: Benefits & Eye Health Effects
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Undergrad When it comes to the Young's Double Slit Experiment, I'm just wondering
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High School Why some things are transparent while others not?
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High School What exactly does polarization of light mean?
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High School Can the index of refraction of a substance be altered by an external action?
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Graduate Melt a Perfect Mirror: Atomic Mechanisms of Reflection
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Undergrad Index of Refraction: Most Dynamic Substance
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Undergrad The Physics of Colors: Do Colors Exist Beyond Human Vision?"
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High School Alter the Speed of Light: What Does Light Travel Through?
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High School Mirror Reflection: Left-Right Exchange Explained
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Graduate Diffraction: Distinguishing Fresnal & Fraunhofer Diffraction
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Undergrad HELP need recommanded literature
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High School Why does the sun generate white light?
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Graduate Understanding Wave Amplification for Light & EM Radiation
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Undergrad Relation between light and sound speed
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Graduate Can anyone recommend a book on laser ring gyroscopes?
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High School Laser Pulse 10 Nanosecond: Explained
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High School Cosmic particles result in lightning
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High School Can light be trapped indefinitely in a mirrored sphere?
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High School Is it the meadiem Light waves effect?
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High School Don't Understand Why I See Moving Pencils
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High School Can You See Other Stars While Sitting on the Sun?
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High School Does Light Have Mass or Is It Just Energy?
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Undergrad How Do Double Concave Mirrors Create a Floating Image?
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High School Understanding the Magic of Rainbows: Explained for Junior High Students
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Graduate What is the Damping Term of a Photon?
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Graduate French scientists discover method to change the speed of light.
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Undergrad Lens Aberrations: 1st, 3rd & 2nd Orders Explained
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Graduate Young's double slit experiment using polarised light
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High School The size of the sun using pinhole imagery
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Undergrad Why does an open ended column reflect sound?
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Graduate Mirror Image Problems in Electrodynamics
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High School The Sun's Light: 8mins, 2degrees & Us
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High School Home Depot/ Radio Shack speed of light?
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Graduate Space Ships faster than light.
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Graduate Solving Diffraction Patterns: Investigating Central Spot Intensity/Radius
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High School Does a photon correspond to one wavelength of a wave
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High School Finding the size of a photographed image
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Undergrad Is lightning caused by ice particles?
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Undergrad Ray of light travels from an optically denser medium
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Undergrad Stunning Revolution in Physics or dumb Newspaper?
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Undergrad Why Does Adding a Third Polarizing Filter Let Light Pass Through?
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Graduate Apparent speed of light in transparent medium
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Graduate Dynamics, polar coordinate system
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High School Stunning Fish Optics: How Fish See Above the Water
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High School Field of view: Understanding the Basics
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High School What is the physics of a lighting ball?
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High School Create Laser-Like Light Beam: Is It Possible?
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Undergrad What Causes Light Waves to Destroy Each Other in Interference?
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High School Calculate Field of View (FOV): Step-by-Step Guide
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Graduate Simple Diffraction: Deriving Equations with Phasors
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High School What Makes a Glass Prism Special Than a Glass Slab?
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High School Adjustment of optics resources
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High School What Causes Total Internal Reflection?
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Graduate Creating Daltonism Glasses: Is it Possible?
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Graduate Does anyone know where I could find this?
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High School How Does Focal Length Affect the Focus Point of a Lens?
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High School Can You Upgrade an Old Microscope Like the Ergolux ZL-19 with Modern Features?
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Undergrad Interference between non-sinusoidal waves
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High School What Happens to Light when Heated - Baking Samosas
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High School Transparency: What Makes It Special?
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Graduate Is light composed of strings ?
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Undergrad Z-Scan Transmission Curve Explained
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Graduate Eye Safety with Lasers: 15 mW & Fiber Coupling
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High School Mysterious Laser Beam Dots: What Could It Be?
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Undergrad Diffraction occurs also for water waves or only for light and matter?
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Undergrad Lightning strikes a swimming pool
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Undergrad Quanta vs. Photon: What's the Difference?
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High School Create a Laser Listening Device: Get Started Here!
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Undergrad Understanding the Phenomenon: Why Do Things Shrink When Seen from a Distance?
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Graduate Reformatting of Fermat's Principle
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High School Scientists cover the mirror with a stratum that doesn't hold water
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Graduate The varying speed of light (Calc+ needed)
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Undergrad How to Convert RGB Values to Wavelength and Vice Versa?
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High School Able to make the split needed for the interference experiment
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Undergrad Question regarding speed of light
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Undergrad Wavelength & Distance Relation in MICROWAVE
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High School Is ultrasound technology cheaper compared to x-ray technology?
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