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Moon surface heat buildup and eventual problems
Hi all! A question I've had for a while:
On the surface of the Moon, while under direct sun radiation, is there any way of cooling up an object?
There appears to be no natural sh …
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Radiometry vs physics
Hi,
I'm trying to make a connection between physical description of light (involving wave lengths, Poynting vector and energy density) and radiometric quantities:]
Radiant energ …
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Does the energy of a light decrease as it passes through a medium?
Since the speed of light changes as it passes through a medium, it makes me wonder whether it changes the frequency at all? Since E = hf, if this is the case, then the energy would …
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Diffraction: how to know the amount of slits from the amount of main maximums?
There are at least two different situations. If you have N-2 middle maximums, the amount of slits is N. Please, see the bottom left picture. The case with no such thing is the ques …
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Diffraction: width and distance btw slits from the wave-pattern?
The pattern is on the right side. ALERT I am uncertain whether an err is in measuring slit width or distance btw slits.
Formulae
Slit width -formula
b=n \lambda L \frac{v_{p}}{v …
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Is it possible to relate sound frequency to light frequency?
I heard that the color red has a frequency of 43 trillion hz, and if you divide that by 2 over and over until you get a hz range that's audible to the human ear you could find the …
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Why does a high optical carrier feq. provide higher transmission rate?
For example , optical carrier in the infra-red region can provide higher
capacity than microwave.