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Can I burn a piece of wood by emitting only one photon per second on it?

answered May 15, 2021 at 11:39

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Rainbows and Clouds

answered May 22, 2021 at 8:36

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How do resistors work?

answered Jul 10, 2022 at 10:31

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Can you actually stand inside a rainbow? I see people claiming you can

answered Jun 30, 2022 at 21:41

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How does an exothermic reaction release energy?

answered Jun 26, 2022 at 18:51

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Can we feel heat in outer space?

answered Aug 13, 2021 at 13:39

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How do photons from the sun make the skin feel warmer?

answered Aug 11, 2021 at 19:22

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If a slit is illuminated by light will the electron still preserve its interference pattern?

answered Aug 28, 2021 at 11:03

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Is upper-atmospheric lightning loud?

answered Jun 26, 2022 at 19:39

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I know the temperature and air pressure at specific height, can I estimate the temperature at different height?

answered May 15, 2021 at 17:02

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Basic Question About Canceling Units

answered May 12, 2021 at 23:18

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Regarding the direction of $\vec{\tau}$

answered May 17, 2021 at 22:06

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What’s the difference between energy in an electromagnetic wave and transmit power?

answered May 17, 2021 at 22:52

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Can the sound of infinitely long played music be decomposed in sine (or cosine) forms?

answered May 15, 2021 at 21:21

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Why can other people lift you up but you can't lift yourself up?

answered May 19, 2021 at 17:51

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If a real image is formed at some distance from a concave mirror, how can we always see it, no matter where we are standing?

answered May 13, 2021 at 23:34

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If the experimentalist does not look at the recorded data in the 'which-way' experiment, will it affect the inference?

answered Aug 13, 2021 at 6:35

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Question about spin states in Susskind's Quantum Mechanics

answered Jul 29, 2021 at 10:59

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Why is acceleration inversely proportional to the mass of an object, but directly proportional to force?

answered May 23, 2021 at 14:59

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Pressure broadening in absorption spectra

answered Aug 27, 2021 at 5:48

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Would the Earth's magnetosphere be more effective against the Sun's solar wind if the planet's rotation was faster?

answered Jul 13, 2022 at 5:07

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Radiation pressure at a oblique surface

answered Jul 20, 2022 at 22:16

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Why double rainbows have the orders of the color bands in them inverted?

answered May 18 at 22:25

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Does an aspheric lens require that the incident light be collimated in order to focus it?

answered Aug 15, 2021 at 9:24

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How are complex numbers, being imaginary (non real), able to represent reality (physics)?

answered Sep 4, 2021 at 6:53

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Why do Greenhouse Gases absorb heavily in certain wavelengths?

answered Jun 22, 2022 at 20:16

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Are radiance and luminance really independent of distance to observer?

answered Jun 23, 2022 at 16:33

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The value of $g$ in free fall motion on earth

answered Jul 1, 2022 at 7:51

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Laser diode tests - voltage sweep vs current sweep. What's the difference?

answered Jun 10, 2021 at 10:09

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What does the amplitude of a light wave tell us? How's it different from light intensity in a physical sense?

answered Jun 19, 2021 at 15:52

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Can I burn a piece of wood by emitting only one photon per second on it?

Rainbows and Clouds

How do resistors work?

Can you actually stand inside a rainbow? I see people claiming you can

How does an exothermic reaction release energy?

Can we feel heat in outer space?

How do photons from the sun make the skin feel warmer?

If a slit is illuminated by light will the electron still preserve its interference pattern?

Is upper-atmospheric lightning loud?

I know the temperature and air pressure at specific height, can I estimate the temperature at different height?

Basic Question About Canceling Units

Regarding the direction of $\vec{\tau}$

What’s the difference between energy in an electromagnetic wave and transmit power?

Can the sound of infinitely long played music be decomposed in sine (or cosine) forms?

Why can other people lift you up but you can't lift yourself up?

If a real image is formed at some distance from a concave mirror, how can we always see it, no matter where we are standing?

If the experimentalist does not look at the recorded data in the 'which-way' experiment, will it affect the inference?

Question about spin states in Susskind's Quantum Mechanics

Why is acceleration inversely proportional to the mass of an object, but directly proportional to force?

Pressure broadening in absorption spectra

Would the Earth's magnetosphere be more effective against the Sun's solar wind if the planet's rotation was faster?

Radiation pressure at a oblique surface

Why double rainbows have the orders of the color bands in them inverted?

Does an aspheric lens require that the incident light be collimated in order to focus it?

How are complex numbers, being imaginary (non real), able to represent reality (physics)?

Why do Greenhouse Gases absorb heavily in certain wavelengths?

Are radiance and luminance really independent of distance to observer?

The value of $g$ in free fall motion on earth

Laser diode tests - voltage sweep vs current sweep. What's the difference?

What does the amplitude of a light wave tell us? How's it different from light intensity in a physical sense?