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I May I treat the light from a star as a light beam?
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Light Transmission Through Half-Hollow Sphere
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I Why do we use low-coherence light in Optical Coherence Tomography?
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I How Does Light Remain After Polarization Despite Changes in Its Electric Field?
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Evaluate the outgoing radiation from an optical fiber on a surface
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I Mirror rotates any polarisation by 90°?
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Trying to Understand the Polarization of light
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I Energy of Electromagnetic Waves in Destructive Interference
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I How to calculate focal length?
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I How does an eye reconstruct an image?
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I Light coupling from optical fiber to glass?
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B Discover the Best Microscope for Sperm Cell Observation | AMScope M158C-E
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I Interesting Optical Phenomenon
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B Geometrical Optics: Explaining the Effects of Small Wavelengths
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A How to compute phase gradient from Snell's law?
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I Minimum light bulb wattage for solar simulator
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I Plane wave decomposition method in scalar optics
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I What is the angle of the Sun on June 21 & Dec 21 at US Zip Code 37129?
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A Diffraction from a set of concentric rings with random phase
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I Image appears outside of q -- Lens Maker's Equation confusion
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Understanding Reflection of Light on a Concave Mirror
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I Lost Aspheric Lens Design Equation Found
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I What Determines the Speed and Clarity of Signals in Wave Physics?
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I How can I derive this relation from Snell's law?
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A Iphone Reflection has a pattern
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I Validity of Fresnel Approximation
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B What does "1 diopter of astigmatism" mean?
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I Why do we always see interference pattern in Michelson interferometer?
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I Quetelet rings on LCD displays?
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I Constructive interference of harmonic electromagnetic waves
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I Do materials have a refractive index for radio waves?
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I Lens angle of coverage/image circle
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B Apparent Depth - What remains constant?
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I Could the Sun burn an image sensor of a star tracker in space?
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I Russia Claims Laser Weapon Can Destroy Drones: Is it Possible?
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I Pentaprism with magnification, which surface is curved?
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A Diffraction of spherical wave by plane grating
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A A double slit thought experiment leading to a paradox
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A Thought experiments suggest problem with published work
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B Intuitive, conceptual understanding of holography
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Can you trap light indefinitely?
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I Find the interference function for different emission modes
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B A variation on the Fresnel Spot experiment
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B Number of fringes in a 2-slit diffraction pattern
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I Interference - two waves of different frequencies - beat velocity
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I What does a "phase reversal" really do?
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I Finding focal length of the lens using "u-v" method
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I Experimental demonstration of an absorption spectrum
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B Exploring Light with a DIY Spectroscope
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