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Undergrad Need help. non-contact measuring device.
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High School Understanding Snell's Law and Maxwell's Equations with EM Waves
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High School Infra Rays: Sun or Human Body Wavelength?
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High School Solve the Thin-Lens Equation: How & Why It Works
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Undergrad Diffraction Pattern Observed w/ Converging Light
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Undergrad Light & Photons: Understanding Reflection & Stimulation
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Graduate Truncating a Gaussian Beam: Effects on Intensity and Other Parameters?
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High School Is Light Massless? Understanding the Nature of Photons
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Undergrad How can I determine the velocity of the ionosphere based on wave reflections?
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High School Why do Searchlights Shorten ?
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High School There is no speed faster than the speed of light?
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Undergrad Can the Formula for the Number of Images by Two Inclined Mirrors Be Proven?
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High School Seeing Polarized Images: A Puzzling Phenomenon
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Graduate Create Photonic Force with Flashlight?
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Undergrad Can We Stack Solar Panels to Increase Solar Energy Absorption?
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Undergrad The Mystery of Light Slowing and Speeding Up - www.thefinaltheory.com
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Graduate The speed of light, something new about it
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Graduate A photonic clock - absolute time
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High School How Does Light Reflect on Paper with Dual LED Angles?
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Graduate Which is more linear, a frictionless or slightly frictional pendulum clock?
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Graduate What Liquids Have a Refractive Index Close to Silicone for Flow Visualization?
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High School Light Ray Problem: Reflection & Refraction
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Undergrad What is the Meaning of Vector Magnitude Symbols?
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Are Time and Light the Same Thing?
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Undergrad A radio beacon @ the speed of light.
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Undergrad What's the Mystery Behind the Rainbow Ring and its Bright Center?
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High School Total Internal Reflection Confusion
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High School How Do Car Lightbulbs Manage to Last Despite Harsh Conditions?
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Graduate Can the Speed of Light Be Changed and What Does It Mean for Space Exploration?
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Undergrad Understanding Diffraction Grating: Factors Affecting Interference Patterns
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High School Diameter of milky way is 1.0 *10^5 light years
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Undergrad OPTICS: Thin Film Interference
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Graduate What Determines the Speed of Light and Its Limitations?
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Undergrad SI unit for luminous intensity
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Graduate What tells a photon what to do?
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Undergrad Unraveling the Mystery of Light Speed: 670 Million MPH
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Graduate What Areas of the Electromagnetic Spectrum Can Be Lased?
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High School Visible Spectrum: All Colors & Where Is Brown?
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Undergrad What Causes Red and Blue Shift in Light?
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Graduate Why is the momentum of light equal to E/c?
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Graduate Mass of Light: How Does It Affect Speed & Gravity?
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High School What Gives Light its Glow and How Does its Speed Change on Earth?
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Undergrad Converging Lens Magnification Problem
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Graduate Zero to Light Speed - Atom's Point of View
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Undergrad Does the light transform a matter?
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Graduate Is time absolute for the photon?
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Graduate Is it the Atom or the Electron? Understanding the Photon Emission Process
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High School Back in time by going faster than light?
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High School What Is the Refraction Index of Paper?
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Graduate “aumic” theory and the propagation of light.
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High School What Is a Light Year? Understanding the Value of 1 Light Year
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Undergrad Lightspeed is 0 I will proof that
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Graduate Coupled Mode Theory: Info on Cylindrical Waveguides
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Undergrad Matter as well as energy can be neither created nor destroyed
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High School Enlarging and Reducing Devices on Xerox Machines - Explained
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Undergrad What is the meaning of N in wave optics of reflection?
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Undergrad Optical Fibers-Min. Bend Radius
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Graduate Faster-than-light experiments at home?
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Undergrad Velocity of Light Emission: Lightspeed or More?
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High School Can Concave Mirrors Focus Sunlight and How Do Pinhole Glasses Work?
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High School How do prisms separate colors in rainbows?
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Undergrad Photons transfer energy to the atoms in the metal plate?
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Graduate The photonic theory of everything.
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Undergrad Intensity of laser beam / Inverse square law
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Graduate Can Lights Be Heard at Light Speed? The Surprising Discovery in Galactic Traffic
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I have a theory that might work with LIGHT traveling
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Graduate What is the relationship between light and mass?
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Graduate How Does General Relativity Redefine Light's Momentum and Force?
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Graduate Speed of Light: Has It Always Been Constant?
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Graduate Is Gravity Driving the Expansion of the Universe?
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Undergrad Speed of light a saddlept on a function
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Photons hitting the metal of the bike
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Undergrad What causes different colors in LASERs?
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Graduate Question about the light clock
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High School The Relationship Between Wavelength & Stop Lights
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Graduate Polarized light (Rival conventions)
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Undergrad Particles traveling faster than light
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Graduate Understanding Bremsstrahlung and Cerenkov Emission
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Photon Masslessness
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High School Lasers are being used to do eye correction
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High School Anyone want to explain lightning to a layman?
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Graduate Wavelength of Light: What is the Nature of This Phenomenon?
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High School Can a Pearl Necklace Explain the Wave-Particle Duality of Light?
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Graduate Sonoluminescence - The Key To Faster Than Light Travel?
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Undergrad What distinguishes photons from other particles in terms of mass and speed?
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Undergrad Can Interferance cause magnification?
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Graduate Forged Bosonic System = Photon?
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Graduate The Doppler Effect and the Velocity of Light in Einstein's Theory
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Graduate Joao Maguijo/Faster Than Light
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Graduate Measuring The Relative Velocity Of Light
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Undergrad How do black holes attract light with no mass?
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Graduate No postulate of light is violated in Galilean transformation.
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What is Light and How Does it Work? Check Out This Website!
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Undergrad Lightning Mystery: AC DC & Neutral Fields/Currents in Earth
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High School Speed of light squared got to do with the production of energy
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High School How the white ray of light changes to a spectrum of colours
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Undergrad Why Does Light Slow Down & How is it Possible to Stop Light?
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Graduate Can We Reach the Speed of Light?
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Graduate Can Photons Physically Travel Backwards in Time?
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Graduate Photon does not experience time
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