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What determines color — wavelength or frequency?
What determines the color of light -- is it the wavelength of the light or the frequency?
(i.e. If you put light through a medium other than air, in order to keep its color the same, which one would ...
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Why does wavelength change as light enters a different medium?
When light waves enter a medium of higher refractive index than the previous, why is it that:
Its wavelength decreases?
The frequency of it has to stay the same?
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Can we transport energy over infinite distances through vacuum using light?
I know that light (or electromagnetic radiation in general) attenuates in intensity as the square of the distance it travels.
Why does it attenuate?
Are the photons being scattered by the medium ...
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Strategies against 50 Hz mains hum on detector signals?
I'm having problems with a strong 50 Hz mains hum on signals created by photodetectors. I assume that they are due to ground loops and I realize that the best option would be to remove those. What are ...
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How many colors exist?
How many "colors" do exist?
Our perception:
As far as I know, colors are just different frequencies of light. According to wikipedia, we can see wavelengths from about 380 nm und 740 nm. This means ...
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Doppler effect “apparent frequency”
In discussing Doppler effect, we use the word "apparent frequency". Does it mean that the frequency of the sound is still that of the source and it is some physiological phenomenon in the listener's ...
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The energy of an electromagnetic wave
The intensity of an electromagnetic wave is only related to its amplitude $E^2$ and not its frequency. A photon has the same wavelength as the wave that's carrying it, and its energy is $h f$.
So ...
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Phase difference of driving frequency and oscillating frequency
If a mass is attached to a spring and is oscillating (SHM). If a driving force is applied it must be at the same frequency as the mass's oscillation frequency. However I'm told that the phase ...
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Effects of high frequency lighting on human vision?
I have a couple of different LED flashlights. One of them has three different "modes" of brightness, and the way it controls it is via pulse width modulation (PWM). Here is a picture that illustrates ...
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Light traveling through a medium
Does the frequency of light change when it travels across an interface between two media? What happens to the light wavelength and the light velocity at the interface?
I've gotten different answers ...
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Frequency of the sound when blowing in a bottle
I'm sure you have tried sometime to make a sound by blowing in an empty bottle. Of course, the tone/frequency of the sound modifies if the bottle changes its shape, volume, etc.
I am interested in ...
