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Graduate How to Calculate Radius of Curvature from Thin Film Interference?
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High School Magnification of an Astronomical Telescope
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High School Tornado Biggest Lightning Thunder BOOM Explosion EVER
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Graduate What is the Fundamental Reason for EMR Diffraction?
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Undergrad Wave conventions: E(x,t) and E(t), E(x) confusion
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Graduate Online lecture about treatise on light by Huygens
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High School Prism Forming Image: Nature & Types
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Graduate Absolute Zero v. The Speed of Light
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Graduate Combine Products of Inertia using Superposition
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High School Question: What happens to absorbed light?
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Graduate Destructive interference in Unpolarised light
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High School Is My Light Meter Reading in mLux or Lux?
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Graduate What is the effect of a Laser on gravity
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High School Wavefronts: Understanding Wave Optics
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Graduate Can Light Experience Doppler-Equivalent Slingshotting Near Massive Bodies?
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High School Can we get a real image of virtual objects?
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Graduate The microscopic expl. of how light is slowed in materials
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Graduate Can the wavelength of a single photon be measured?
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Undergrad Perceiving white light from Lightbulb Illumination
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Undergrad Depth effect in mirror reflections
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Undergrad Photons and solar wind/plasma interaction?
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Undergrad Single-mode vs multi-mode fiber coupling
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Undergrad Coherence, Young's double slit experiments.
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Graduate Beginning through the Pedrotti optics book -- I have an energy question
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Graduate Size resolution limitation on Dynamic Light Scattering
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High School Where Will the Image Be Formed with Light Rays Perpendicular to a Plane Mirror?
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Undergrad Why do higher frequency light waves bend more in a prism?
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Undergrad Double slit displaying anti-fringes?
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Graduate Is the EM field the medium for light waves
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Undergrad Collimating an extended source to infinity?
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Undergrad How Does the Three Slit Interference Pattern Differ from the Two Slit Pattern?
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Graduate Classic double-slit experiment in a new light
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Illustration about the "relativity" of light
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Graduate Photon propagation? Is this correct?
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Undergrad The speed of light in glass and water
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Graduate Discover How to Efficiently Polarize Microwave Radiation | 1mm Wavelength
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Undergrad Why does PPG (photoplethysmography) Use Infrared and Green Both Light
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Graduate What's the mode of light in single-mode fiber?
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Graduate Reflection (intrinsic and characteristic impedance effects)
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Undergrad Polarized Light -- Idea for headlight safety
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Graduate Energy of a material with permanent polarization
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High School A silly question about why the sky is blue
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Graduate Normal incidence of light on a denser medium
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Graduate Conservation of angular momentum in scattering processes
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Graduate Received power for free space optics
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Graduate Understanding FLP Vol 1, Section 30.1: Struggling w/Magnitude & Phase
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High School Why Does a Prism Periscope Focus Light Instead of Scattering It?
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Undergrad Finding the Fresnel coefficients from interface conditions
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Graduate Varying thickness diffraction grating
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Undergrad Can you explain this photo to me?
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High School Do Photons Have Mass?
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High School Rayleigh Interferometer: Impact of Slip Placement on Interference Pattern
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Graduate What is meant by Spectral and Spatial Shaping of a laser
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Graduate Can a photon attract another photon?
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Graduate Optics to act as a mirror or transparent medium depending on incident angle
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Graduate Infinite light polarizers in an array
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Undergrad Reading optics diagrams: Glan-Taylor
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High School Optical effect seen on a bus: mirrored screen shows different colors
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Graduate Relation of laser pulse length and the Output Coupler trasmissivity
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Undergrad The 1.22 factor in the angular resolution
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Graduate On Rayleigh Scattering and UV Light Absorption
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High School Calculation of Light Intensity
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Graduate Is this the simplest optical cloak possible?
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Graduate Optical filter that blocks infrared and allows UV?
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Graduate Photons on a Super Cooled Area
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Undergrad Relationship between Reflectance and Albedo
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Undergrad Are Photons Reflected Directly from Surfaces or Re-emitted by Atoms?
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Graduate Question regarding Ray Optics and Probability
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Graduate Does Gravity Deflect Light according to Newtonian Mechanics?
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High School Additive colour theory and "traditional" colour mixing
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Undergrad Calculating the resolution limit using Fermat's principle
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High School Why aren't we getting burned up by light?
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Undergrad Why Don't All Photons from Distant Stars Reach Us?
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Graduate Are superpositions of waves with different c still waves?
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Undergrad How does the inverse square law apply to a focused detector?
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Undergrad High-Energy Photon: What Happens?
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Graduate Emission of light from a surface
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Graduate Amplitude vs Magnitude: Explaining the Probability Density
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Graduate Self-phase modulation question (nonlinear optics)
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Undergrad Question about main laser parameters
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High School How does light split into colors?
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Undergrad Print something to be seen in focus by person w/o glasses?
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Undergrad Geometrical Optics - Light ray angles on a spherical mirror
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High School 2D becomes 3D when looked at by one eye
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Undergrad The change in magnitude of centripetal acceleration
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High School The use of plano convex lens in a slide projector
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Undergrad Wavelength of light changing in a medium
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High School What easily avaible liquids are transparent in IR?
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Graduate Is there refraction upon frustrated total internal reflection
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Graduate Energy lost through photon emission
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Graduate "Total" destructive interference of plane waves
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High School Frequency of Differently Coloured Light
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Undergrad How Does Optical Coherence Tomography Work to Image Different Tissue Layers?
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Undergrad Are these explanations for color/light-absorption correct?
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High School A question about optics: Why does a pinhole aperture work like my eyeglasses?
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Undergrad Optics: Huygens' principle and bending of light
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Graduate How does the size between scatterers affect reflection?
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Graduate Could you focus light from Sol's corona?
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Undergrad How to estimate total energy when dealing with beamsplitters
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Graduate Tangential velocity in polar coordinates
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