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A heavier person vs. a lighter person diving into a pool
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Can heavy objects be used to modulate light waves with small amplitude?
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What causes this curious light phenomenon? (video inside)
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Particle analysis of diffraction
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How does the speed of light change when it enters glass?
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Circuits and the Speed of Light (2)
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Circuits and the Speed of Light
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How Does VIS-NIR Reflectance Linearity Vary in Mixed Color Pigments?
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A living thing made of different photonic molecules?
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Correction of horizontal astigmatism in an anamorphic lens
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Deriving the Law of Reflection from Huygens Principle
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Exploring Compton Scattering and Backscatter Scanners
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Diffraction of light and conservation of energy.
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Negative Concave Lens - Creating a Beam Expander
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Lens selection for close proximity surface photos
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Adding Zooming Capability to my Far Infrared Spectrum Sensor
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How to calculate shadows in nanophotonics
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Polarisation through a chiral nematic crystal
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Does a material change the direction of polarization of light?
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Question about two-stage light gas guns
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Acoustic reflections from an elliptical wall in Urbino city (Italy)
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Reflection of inverted waves to form a standing wave
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Differences between X-rays and Gamma rays
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Can you calculate optical density from permittivity and permeability?
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Why does a divergent lens create an interference pattern?
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Apparatus for a polarization filter rotator dial
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Can Two Laser Beams with Different Phases Interfere?
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Why can't light pass through to the dark side of a window?
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Kramers-Kronig relation for refractive index
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Image in a glass sphere (Ray Optics)
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Radar Reflection: Charged vs Non-Charged Objects
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Brain function & bipolar: fluid volume & speed of information in tubes
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Can we connect two laser sources to make a stronger beam with a larger radius?
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Do two light waves with difference frequencies connect when they meet?
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Measuring Reflectance with a Digital Camera
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Light interacting with Matter -- Does the wavelength make a difference?
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Please Explain My Polarized Light Experiments
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Light speed and refractive index
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Controlling output light power by constructive/destructive interference
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What is the logic behind the mirror symmetry method of solving circuits?
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How will light react in this situation....
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Why do shadows change shape when light is shone on them?
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How did Becquerel discover the connection between phosphorescence and X-rays?
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Why do people refer to the "fast axis" vs. "slow axis" of Diode Lasers?
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Concentric Meniscus Lenses Design
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Insight into polar coordinates (Newtonian mechanics)?
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What Causes Molecules to Aggregate Over a Fiber in Optical Trapping?
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Why does light take a longer path in a rarer medium?
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Why does the amount of Refraction depend on wavelength?
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Modes of laser propagation in cylindrical optics
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Reflection and transmission of waves in a medium of nonuniform density
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Is the length of the arm r in a polar coordinate a function of the angle?
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A particle moving with zero radial acceleration in polar coordinates
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Elliptical facet cylindrical optical fiber - Mathieu equation
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Classically, how can I explain Reflection?
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How to explain TE20 mode in a rectangular waveguide from reflection
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Focus or parallelize the light from an LED
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Internal reflection equation question
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Interference of light by splitting the wavefront and recombining
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Are Polycarbonate Sunglasses Effective Against UV Rays?
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What are the key considerations for imaging with a condenser fresnel lens?
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Understanding Zero-G Flight Physics: How Men Navigate Curved Paths in Airplanes
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Geiger Counter and ultraviolet light sources
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Y-component of the force vector in turning flight
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Can you make a more focused beam by using convex and concave lens?
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Some Flight Calculations and the Motion of the Earth
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Size of a light beam before and after Refraction
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Photon wavelengths and frequencies
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Can anyone explain this derivation of the variable mass equation?
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Brewster's angle and the intensity of reflected light
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Strange optical phenomenon: lighting a candle in front of a TV screen
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What is the lifetime of a photon in a medium?
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Optical wireless communication ideas
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Effect of stacking diffraction gratings
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Refraction of Light: Myth or Reality?
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Doppler effect and how it affects the light spectrum
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Trapping stiffness of optical tweezers
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Frustrated Total Internal Reflection
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Polarization of elliptical fiber modes
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What is the meaning of polarization ratio?
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Rearranging the equation for the cutoff condition in optical fibers
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Light Reflection and Particle Size
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How to find the length of a vector expressed in polar coordinates?
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Polarization and intensity of a Gaussian beam
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Real Fresnel diffraction experiment
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Why is the edge of the light from my flashlight beam so blurry?
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Wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) spectroscopy
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Exploring the Limitations of Diffraction: Fresnel vs. Fraunhofer
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Evanescent and Gradient force on an optical waveguide
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A question about different lens setups imaging a rotating stick
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