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Maximum Information transferrable in Radio Waves
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Derivation of complex refractive index
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How is diffraction affected by grating thickness?
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Magnitude of friction on the driving wheel
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Diffraction through a transparent aperture?
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Why does refraction take place ?
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Reflecting a laser with a mirror is there a limit to the power level?
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How does the reflection of light work?
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Light emission as wire rope breaks
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Can light travel faster than the speed of 300,000,000m/s?
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Most People Can See the Polarization of Light
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Reflection Patterns of Laser Light on Tilted Mirrors
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Lens Formula Confusion: Convex Lens, Cartesian Sign Conv.
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Inverse Square Law: 1mW laser range?
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Can the human eye detect just a single photon?
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Confusion about the speed of light
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Infrared Incandescence: How Hot Does It Need To Be?
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Where does the waves energy go when destructive interference occurs?
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Are lasers capable of producing explosions ,or is that just fictional filler?
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Why doe glass get hot if the photons aren't absorbed?
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How do photons cause matter to move?
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Optical modulation transfer function of an image and its cutoff
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Lateral Inversion of Images Formed by Convex & Concave Lenses
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Coherency matrix of partially polarized light incomplete?
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What will light energy converted to if wasted?
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How Does Using Different Active Mediums Affect Laser Output?
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Can a stable gas be ionized by concentrated light?
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Transmitting Information faster than light?
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Optics - Spectacles lens Power Estimation
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Is Light considered Matter? Questions on energy and states of matter.
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Trillion FPS camera developed at MIT camera can 'watch' the movement of light
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7th grader needs help with speed of light and infinite mass
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Limits of information transfer through light and sound
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Are Polaroid headlights the solution to reducing night-time road accidents?
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Single-slit diffraction intensity
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Why light does not travel in wires?
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How many photons are reflecting?
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Turn off the Higg's field and travel at the speed of light?
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Understanding Energy Conservation in Laser Operation
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Help explain an optical effect
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Lines Appear When Staring at Bright Lights - What's the Explanation?
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Sun's light beam and diffraction grating
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How do unpolarized sunglasses reduce brightness?
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Infrared as watermark that can be detected by camera even in daylight
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Light & Sound Waves: Thermal Energy & Frequency
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Frequency of Sound and Light waves
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Homopolar Motor Limiting factor angular velocity
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What exactly is the Ultraviolet Catastrophe?
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Figuring out what image distance (lens and mirror) formula to use?
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Question about stars and light after a trip to the Hayden Planetarium
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Calculating the magnitude of displacement
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Lightning Questions: Answers to Elusive Mysteries
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Expanding Laser Beams with Focusing Lenses: Possibilities and Limitations
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Why do light form an interference pattern when passing through only one slit?
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Total Internal Reflection and snell's law
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Light speed and cosmological constant
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Long vs Short light wavelength absorption
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What causes the angular fringes in laser light pictures?
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Exploring the Lens Maker Formula: Understanding Its Purpose and Significance
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Will light be trapped in a room full of mirrors?
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Dynamic light scattering laplace inversion
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Does it need light speed or not
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Xray refraction and UV refraction border?
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How can I expand my laser beam without using water?
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At the subatomic level, how does reflection and refraction occur?
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Standard optical component symbols?
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Lightning Strikes: Does it Create an EMP?
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Unveiling the Versatility of Photons: From the Universe to Our Everyday Life"
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Will, Red, Green and blue lasers wen crossed create the spectrum we crossed ?
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Optics question-Materials for vacuum chamber viewing ports
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Degree of coherence of light from a red semiconductor laser
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Optical Drive Physics: Data Storage & Reflection
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Exploring the Possibility of Laser-Driven Logic Gates
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Optics/ the eye/ near, far-sightedness
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Real vs. Virtual Photons: A Comparison
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Clarification regarding rolling cylinder with CG slightly above
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Lightning/Sparks physics equation
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What is more beneficial: light as a wave or light as a particle?
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Infrared Gas Analyzer: How to Accurately Measure Concentration
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Splitting a light beam into opposite circular polarizations?
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Does total internal reflection only occur with electromagnetic waves?
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Does the focal length of a concave lens change in a different medium?
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Images formed by cylindrical lens
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