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Mar 27 |
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Eye sensitivity & Danger signal Because if something is hot enough to glow white it's probably too late to run away :p (tongue in cheek) |
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Mar 5 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Mar 5 |
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What is the optimal weight for a golf ball? @Wouter Maybe air resistance and drag is important, too, though I'm not sure if this is negligible for golf balls. |
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Feb 20 |
awarded | Benefactor |
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Feb 20 |
accepted | Can't seem to reconcile geometric optics and wave optics |
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Feb 18 |
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Can't seem to reconcile geometric optics and wave optics Thank you, it's a lot clearer now. I'll wait a bit and award the bounty to you in a few days if nothing else happens. Taking in this information will take time and I might have one or two more queries. |
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Feb 18 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Feb 17 |
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Can't seem to reconcile geometric optics and wave optics Thanks, that makes sense. So the Fresnel transmittance is equal to the amplitude coefficient for transmission squared, i.e. $|\text{t}|^2$? What happens to the $\frac{n_j \cos{\theta_j}}{n_i \cos{\theta_i}}$ term which is supposed to be in front of it (for conservation of energy)? |
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Feb 17 |
awarded | Promoter |
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Feb 17 |
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Can't seem to reconcile geometric optics and wave optics added 601 characters in body |
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Feb 15 |
awarded | Editor |
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Feb 15 |
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Can't seem to reconcile geometric optics and wave optics added 296 characters in body |
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Feb 15 |
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Can't seem to reconcile geometric optics and wave optics @LubošMotl Yes, that is what I would anticipate. But averaging the result I got over $0 \leq \varphi < 2 \pi$, I do not get the result I got for the geometry optics approach, so I am thinking I did not "do things right". And thank you. |
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Feb 15 |
asked | Can't seem to reconcile geometric optics and wave optics |
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Jan 25 |
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Does light change color on its way through a window? The second paragraph says "wavelength and frequency will experience the reverse change than as when they entered". Of course, this is technically true, since the reverse change of identity is identity, but the way you wrote it suggests frequency has undergone a change. |
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Jan 25 |
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Does light change color on its way through a window? Frequency is unchanged when the wave crosses the air/glass interface, only wavelength and velocity change. |
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Jan 3 |
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Is it possible that there is a color our human eye can't see? After some reflection, the question as asked doesn't make sense to me, because "color" is generally defined as what we perceive. If we can't perceive it, it's not a color. |
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Jan 3 |
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Do photons lose energy while travelling through space? Or why are planets closer to the sun warmer? This is off-topic, but doesn't light lose in intensity (photons get absorbed and scattered) more or less inside mediums like air, water, glass, exponentially with distance travelled (Beer-Lambert law)? In that case you'd have to take into account that, along with the inverse square law, right? |
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Dec 2 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Sep 21 |
awarded | Citizen Patrol |
