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Photon Splitting: Exploring the Physics
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Debunk me, please #2 (lasers/masers)
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What happens to light trapped in a closed sphere?
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Does light change speed in Earth's atmosphere?
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Can Single Photons Produce Interference Patterns in Young's Experiment?
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How can Fourier Optics be used to analyze and explain experimental physics?
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Why don't we see a change in color when looking at a mirror?
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What exactly does polarization of light mean?
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Can the index of refraction of a substance be altered by an external action?
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Melt a Perfect Mirror: Atomic Mechanisms of Reflection
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Can anyone recommend a book on laser ring gyroscopes?
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Alter the Speed of Light: What Does Light Travel Through?
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Diffraction: Distinguishing Fresnal & Fraunhofer Diffraction
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Relation between light and sound speed
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Laser Pulse 10 Nanosecond: Explained
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Cosmic particles result in lightning
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Can light be trapped indefinitely in a mirrored sphere?
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Is it the meadiem Light waves effect?
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Can You See Other Stars While Sitting on the Sun?
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Does Light Have Mass? Exploring the Scientific Debate
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What is the Damping Term of a Photon?
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Young's double slit experiment using polarised light
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French scientists discover method to change the speed of light.
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Lens Aberrations: 1st, 3rd & 2nd Orders Explained
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Mirror Image Problems in Electrodynamics
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Why does an open ended column reflect sound?
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Is lightning caused by ice particles?
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The Sun's Light: 8mins, 2degrees & Us
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Home Depot/ Radio Shack speed of light?
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Space Ships faster than light.
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Dynamics, polar coordinate system
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Does a photon correspond to one wavelength of a wave
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Ray of light travels from an optically denser medium
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Apparent speed of light in transparent medium
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Stunning Fish Optics: How Fish See Above the Water
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What is the physics of a lighting ball?
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Create Laser-Like Light Beam: Is It Possible?
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Exploring Light Interference: The Mystery Behind Its "Destructive" Nature
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What Causes Total Internal Reflection?
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Simple Diffraction: Deriving Equations with Phasors
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Adjustment of optics resources
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How Does Focal Length Affect the Focus Point of a Lens?
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Interference between non-sinusoidal waves
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What Happens to Light when Heated - Baking Samosas
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Is light composed of strings ?
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Eye Safety with Lasers: 15 mW & Fiber Coupling
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Mysterious Laser Beam Dots: What Could It Be?
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Quanta vs. Photon: What's the Difference?
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Diffraction occurs also for water waves or only for light and matter?
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Lightning strikes a swimming pool
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Create a Laser Listening Device: Get Started Here!
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Scientists cover the mirror with a stratum that doesn't hold water
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The varying speed of light (Calc+ needed)
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Able to make the split needed for the interference experiment
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Question regarding speed of light
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Wavelength & Distance Relation in MICROWAVE
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Is ultrasound technology cheaper compared to x-ray technology?
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Can a rigid object transmit a signal faster than the speed of light?
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What materials make the best mirrors?
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The Unseeable: Can They Do It?
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Speed of light is a universal constant
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Light Transmission Through Window Glass
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Can music really be transmitted faster than light?
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Understanding the Constant Speed of Light: Debunking Common Misconceptions
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Refraction : freq remains unchanged
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Diffraction derivation on Wiki - wrong?
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Rayleigh-scattering and dipole Common characters?
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X-ray Scattering: Bragg Spacing, D-Spacing, Q & Repeat Distance
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A New look at the intensity of light.
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Bend a Laser Beam - Learn How It's Done
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Virtual mirror on the road on hot days. Why is that?
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Proof : Light Speed isn't Constant
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The significance of the speed of light as a fundamental constant
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The higgs boson=the graviton= the speed of light
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Understanding Lights Wired in Series: Explaining Basic Electricity
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Questions puzzling me about light
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Lasers in Measurements: Learn How to Use Them
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How does a harmonic oscillator behave when driven by a periodic force?
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Does Light Have Mass? Answering Your Questions
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Exploring the Invisible Spectra: What Can We See?
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How Do X-Rays Become Visible on Medical Imaging?
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How to determine the refracting index of a medimum?
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What Limits Does a Supernova Observation Set on Photon Mass?
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Ball Lightning: Eyewitness Accounts and Descriptions
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Investigating Beta Particle Backscatter from Foil Materials
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How fast can lightning change direction?
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