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At which wavelengths do photons behave like X-ray?
Hard X-rays of wavelengths of about an angstrom are very different than regular lights in a way that they can’t be reflected or refracted, which means their refractive index is always close to 1 ...
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Can the laser light, in principle, take any wavelength in the EM spectrum?
Can the laser light, in principle, take any wavelength in the EM spectrum? I don't think there is what prevent this in principle, right?
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Why is the shorter the wavelength, the smaller the object you can image? and vice-versa?
I know that the shorter the wavelength the smaller the object you can image clearly. Why wavelength matters in imaging something? How having big wavelength wont let u image smaller object, like if u ...
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Light waves can't have a wavelength
The wave nature of light comes from Maxwell's equations. More precisely, the two wave equations that come from them:
$$\Delta\vec{E}=\mu\varepsilon \frac{\partial^2\vec{E}}{\partial t^2}\\
\Delta\vec{...
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Why Do Harmonic Components Define Wavelength in Diffraction and Interference Phenomena?
I'm exploring the physical principles underlying diffraction and interference, specifically how these phenomena depend on the wavelength of harmonic (sinusoidal) components of a wave. My question ...
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Converting $\rm W/m2/sr/nm$ to $\rm kR/nm$ for any wavelength
I have atmospheric spectra given in W/m2/sr/nm units and wavelength in nm. I want to convert W/m2/sr/nm to kilo Rayleigh/nm (kR/nm) for any wavelength.
I tried the following method from this paper: ...
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How could RGB color system compose a violet color?
In the GRB system, we combine the three primary colors, red, green, and blue, to make some new colors.
It's easy to understand the production of yellow because the wavelength of yellow is between red ...
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Wavelength of "complementary colours"?
In physics/chemistry/the life sciences there's a common experimental method of determining the concentration of a sample using spectrophotometers. We can measure the absorbance of the sample at a ...
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Is reflected color not from the wavelength corresponding to that color?
I was reading through Josef Albers' interaction of color (a classical art color theory book), where he makes this point:
If I see a substance, or pigment of a particular color, doesn't that mean I'm ...
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Derivation of optical resolution
I'm trying to prove optical resolution formula from scratch and im having a hard time doing it. I dont know much about optics (im studying cosmology) and i need a detailed proof of optical resolution ...
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Does our sense of color depend on frequency of source or the wavelength of light?
I was taught that the colors we see are results of the corresponding wavelength, but each wavelength also has a distinct frequency since speed of light is fixed for a specific medium (same goes for ...
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Wavelengths of light outside our solar system
The question might have been asked before. Our Sun's rays decompose into 7 elementary colors by using a prism or spectrometry. Can the the colors (their number and wave length in the spectrum ) be ...
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Why do parabolic antennas need to be the same width as their wavelength?
I am reading the wikipedia page for parabolic antennas, and have a question about the below quote:
In order to achieve narrow beamwidths, the parabolic reflector must be much larger than the ...
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Water vapor: refractive index and extinction coefficient ($n$ and $k$)
Looking for optical properties of water vapor (index of refraction and extinction coefficient) as a function of wavelength.
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Does refraction depend on the colour of light?
Consider passing red and yellow lights separately through the same interfaces and with the same angles of incidence.
Light of which colour will be refracted more?
This question was given to me. All I ...
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