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Total internal reflection doesn't occur when it is supposed to
I figured out that when I aim a laser beam on my window at an arbitrary angle, the total internal reflection doesn't occur whatsoever. What's more, the refracted beam seems to be pretty intense. It ...
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Bending a Laser Beam [closed]
We can bend a Laser beam by varying the refraction coefficient of the air.
We can bend a Laser beam by dispersing into the air small particles that have the same effect on the Laser Beam and small ...
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Why does the intensity of the scattered light vary when a monochromatic laser is shined into a transparent object?
When a laser is shined into a glass ball such as this video (link) or a bottle of water (link) the light is refracted through the whole transparent body. However, the intensity of the light scattered ...
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Curved Light stream?
I was wondering, a while ago, i asked if there is a way to bend light someway, which I got the answer is index of refraction.
Which is when light passes through a material it refracts to a certain ...
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Working principle of an optical stretcher
I understand that while using an optical stretcher experimental apparatus we attach a small dielectric ball to the specimen of study which can either be a DNA molecule, a Biological cell or any ...
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