Vol. 86, No. 3, Papers on Astronomy, Botany, Geology, Paleontology, and Zoology (Jul. 8, 1943), pp. 351-363 (13 pages) In the first part of the present paper the amount of total light reflected by ...

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Physicists in the US claim to have created the first thin optical film with a refractive index close to that of air. The film consists of an array of obliquely-deposited nanorods, which can ...

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Students use mirror equations to determine the position and type. Students use mirror equations to determine the position, type, and size of mirror images for curved mirrors mathematically. Optical ...

The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to three scientists who created pulses of light so short they can be used to watch the inner workings of atoms. Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and ...

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