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Relationship between light amplitude and intensity
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Finding Green Light Wavelengths for Dissertation
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Refraction and fiber optic cable diameter
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Does anyone know a crystal with refractive index of water?
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Why is diffraction most pronounced for objects on the order of the wavelength?
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Color and visible light in general
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Curving light undergoing redshift
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Explanation of laser intensity
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Diffuse light - clear reflection
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Material that blocks visible light but not uv light
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Diffraction: rectangular aperture and gaussian beam
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Can microwaves burn metallic objects?
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Optics Q : Diffraction Pattern from a Ronchi Ruling
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How could you influence the number of photons emitted from a metal
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How to determine rarer & denser medium for light?
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Basic conceptual description of lightspeed having a limit
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Speed of light in denser and rarer medium.
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Understanding the Time Delay in Viewing Events on the Moon with Telescopes
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Setting a circular polarization at an FBG
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Measuring Light Speed - Is Light Massless?
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Computing Flight Forces. Im getting so upset
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Exploring Negative Index of Refraction: A Tutorial by Pendry and Shalaev
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How Far Must Someone Fall in a Cylinder to See the Entrance as a Dot of Light?
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What Can You Do With Large Plano-Convex Lenses Found at an Auction?
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The Mystery of 99% Reflecting Mirrors: A Physics Perspective
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Photographic 'Circular Polarisers': what are they?
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Light Intensity and Number of Photons
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Relationship between Refractive index and Inpedance
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Spin Polarization: Definition & Spintronics Logic Levels
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Measuring components of circularly polarised light.
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Speed of light : missing energy
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The acceleration of mass using light
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Light Wavelengths: Causes & Frequency Explained
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How does the inverse square law apply to electromagnetic radiation?
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Mysterious Tiny Spots in a Laser Spot
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Can light produce darkness and can noise procude quiteness 4
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Exploring the Nature of Light: Is it a State of Matter?
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Optical band-pass filters (radome coatings)
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Polarizing Light: Uses in Science & Technology
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Gravity Probe 2 Success: Lens Thirring Effect Explained
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If light has mass, and is a wave
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Refractive Index: Methods for Determining Beyond Newton's Rings
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Mechanism of reflection at the atomic scale
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Light velocity, wavelength, and frequency
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Why Do Molecules Absorb Photons at Combined Frequencies v1 + v2?
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I need some help with this project (optics and lens design)
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Single slit diffraction interference
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Is light a wave AND/OR a particle
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Does Light Bend in an Electro-Magnetic Field?
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How Does Light Intensity Vary with Distance from an Incoherent Extended Source?
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Metal inside a microwave oven -> ice?
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Relative Velocity of running towards a mirror
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Y ICE doesnt melt when placed in microwave oven?
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Can a prism separate two different waveforms with the same spectrum?
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If light is a constant then gravity is also right?
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Exploring the Speed of Forces in the Universe
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What gives objects their color?
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Optical Phenomena with White Wine and Glass
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Amount of light needed to capture images
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How Do Mirrors Create the Illusion of Depth?
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Is the speed of light truly unattainable?
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Alternator which is light in weight
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