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Is the Ideal Lens Calculation Patentable?
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Why doesn't sunlight have infinite energy?
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Principal plane of a thin lens
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Plano-convex lens, which side should face the laser source
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To measure the energy density of a (brief) laser pulse
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Does the picture change if we turn a thin lens around
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How many energy requires to increase 1℃ of 1 liter of water using MICROWAVE?
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Condition for circular-wire polarizer to transmit no light
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Where do antireflective coatings reflect light?
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Does a Single Metal Stripe Reflect Polarized Light at the Angle of Incidence?
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Is this image of a polarizer misleading?
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Is laser beam visible in vacuum?
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Rayleigh Scattering and linear polarization
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Jones vectors for circular polarization
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Rectilinear propagation of light
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Optics: How would you determine wavelength?
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Estimating the FOV of a thin sliced plano-convex cylindrical lens
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Reasoning for photon having no mass
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Why does polarizability have units of volume?
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PDLC film or glass for optical shutters or shutter glasses
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How does the diffraction grating in Canadian currency work?
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Laser pulse: spectral width vs time
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Question about superposition....
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What is the correct formula for refraction at an interface between two media?
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Birefringence in in uniaxial optical media and Snell's law
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About a concave mirror with a large focal length (1000mm)
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Huygens-Fresnel principle of diffraction
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Diffraction Help: Is This Diffraction?
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Why is the photon's mass zero in classical equations for light?
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Is the Photon Truly Massless? Examining Einstein's Law of Relative Mass
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The Homopolar Generator: An Analytical Example - Comments
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Reflected rings from the chair leg
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Why does cold air seem to optically zoom in far-away objects?
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Measurement of the Speed of light
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How can we melt ice in a microwave efficiently?
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More slits, farther maxima of interference patterns, why?
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Interference fringes in Absorption spectra
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Device with which I can measure the frequency of light
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Blue Light from a Blackbody Radiator
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The validity of ray optics in telescopes
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Single Slit Diffraction and Interference Maxima
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Direct Modulation and Photon Lifetime - Laser
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What Causes Equal Interference Amplitudes in Light Diffraction Patterns?
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Creating Coherent Light from UV LEDs and Pinhole Aperture
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Single Slit and Diffraction Grating Formulas
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The relation between photons and waves
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The crossed ladder problem and optics mirror/lens equation
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Could lightning be creating antimatter in our atmosphere?
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Distortions in time when going near light speed
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Does black hole stop light or time?
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Methods of Trapping Laser Light
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Harvard Scientists Create New States of Light
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Diffraction and gravitational lensing
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How can X-ray energy transitions be identified?
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Does attenuation affect subsequent interference?
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How can this interesting set of mirrors be constructed?
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Determining which energy level transfers cause peaks in x-ray spectra
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