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How can I go from high school level to understanding advanced optics?
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If density of object is slightly greater than density of fluid?
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Width of a wire grid polarizer
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The Difference in Refraction Angles of Different Colored Light
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The meter, the second, and the speed of light
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Diffraction Definition & Common Examples
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Optics: how to make eye focus in distance?
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Refraction of Light: Does Color Change?
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Intensity and frequence of light
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Inverse Problems in Scattering
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AM Radio Interference: FAQs & Solutions
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Ray diagrams, lenses and microscopes
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Optical tweezers for manipulating atoms together to form new structure
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Why does 'white light' from the Sun look yellow?
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Why Does a Fresnel Lens Create an Upright Image in a Galilean Telescope Setup?
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Oscillating E Field Interpretation of Light
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Divergence angle of light exiting a nano-etched single mode fiber
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E&M simple polarizability question
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Oversampling and phase retrieval in Fraunhofer diffraction
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Poynting vector and intensity in scalar diffraction theory
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Lens to lens distance is not 2f in "4f system"
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A Descriptive Explanation of Photons required
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A square looks at light squared
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What is the direction of the anode heel effect in a rotating anode x-ray tube?
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Is the Speed of Light Changing? Implications for Permittivity and Permeability.
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Why do manufacturers use a gas that emits UV light in fluorescent light bulbs?
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Relation between Hamiltonian of light ray and that of mechanics
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Help with Order of Magnitude Estimations and Dimensional Analysis
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Lenses question -- Can lenses Magnify?
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How Can I Mathematically Represent the Polarization of a Laser Beam?
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Why does the thunder from lighting last much longer than the flash?
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Enhance Visibility with Metal Spray Coating for X-Ray Applications
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Why don't mirrors invert the image vertically?
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Focal Length of a Plano Convex Lens
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Light Plane Photography - Is my explanation correct?
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Simulation of a Gaussian beam in an optical waveguide
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Mediums that only refract light
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Appearence of objects which do not reflect light
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How do laser interferometers measure distances greater than 1wavelengt
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Conditions for Double-Slit Interference in Quantum Mechanics
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Polariton Beams Provide Coherent Energy for 250x Less Power
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