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william herschel discovering infrared problem
when william herschel conducted the experiment of separating white light with a prism and measuring the different colors, he put a thermometer past the red color as a control finding it to pick up the ...
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Does light really “travel”?
From what I've so far understood about light, a photon is emitted somewhere and after some time it's absorbed somewhere else.
Have we had experiments that confirm the path taken or something akin to ...
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Single electron non-perturbing detector
I am designing an experiment where I need to trigger the release of an electron by a radioactive source (Sr-90).
The easy way to do it is to use a thin scintillator right after the source collimator. ...
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Magnetic fields and gravitational waves. How far do they reach?
I read that magnetic fields perpendicular to a current shoot out and expand all the way to infinity.
Additionally a gravitational wave, no matter how small will also expand to infinity at the velocity ...
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How does Newton's 2-prism experiment help to explain why light does not get dispersed into 7-colors in a parallel glass slab?
In a real parallel glass slide(with two prisms imagined to be touching each other to form a parallel glass slide),
The ray of light should pass through the Z in between without any dispersion or ...
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Efficiencies of Coupling Light into a Fiber
I am in AMO Physics and work a lot with optics. I just wanted to get an idea of what coupling efficiencies one "should" get in a "reasonable time"* by coupling light into a fiber using different ...
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Experimental proof of gravitational redshift of light
Has the gravitational red shift been proven for electromagnetic waves only or also for a single photon?
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What narrow-linewidth laser system runs at 2100nm with 1W of power?
For an experiment at our university we need a laser that runs at about 2.1 μm (about 20nm higher or lower would be fine too.
We have found a multitude of lasers that achieve this (typically Thulium- ...
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How do you calculate the intensity of light around the focal point from a focused collimated beam of light?
Problem/Purpose of me asking this question to you people who know more than me:
So I'm doing a science project where I'm collimating a beam of light to a focus point in a light medium (water vapor or ...
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What reflective media do laser shows use?
I am having a hard time in finding out what exact light media laser shows use. I am trying to build a laser show myself. I know that the laser light is reflected off these particles in such a way that ...
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Home experiments using wireless LAN or mobile phones about electromagnetism?
Are there any nice experiments using wireless LAN access points or routers or mobile phones to demonstrate physical features of electromagnetic fields, especially em-waves?
More precisely I am ...
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Scattering of light by light: experimental status
Scattering of light by light does not occur in the solutions of Maxwell's equations (since they are linear and EM waves obey superposition), but it is a prediction of QED (the most significant Feynman ...
