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What is the frequency of light whose wavelength is 6.5 x 10^-7nm?

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What are the properties of longitudinal sound waves that allow them to travel through a solid?

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How many waves of modern humans arrived in Europe and when did each wave arrive?

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What is stronger, the blast wave of a nuclear explosion or the shockwave from a meteorite impact?

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What are high frequency sound waves that humans can't hear called? How do you know if something makes them or not?

asked Feb 17, 2023 in Waves physics by bobflemming

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If acoustic foam absorbs sound waves that travel through it, then why doesn't it dampen the level of noise that travels through a wall with the foam on it into the other room?

asked Feb 17, 2023 in Waves physics by LayToya

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What would happen if light waves were infinitely short?

asked Feb 17, 2023 in Waves physics by CelestialMystic

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Can lower frequency sounds travel further?

asked Feb 17, 2023 in Waves physics by bigjules

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I've never really understood quanta and waves, how do they move, how do they look? Why can we only track their location by a probability?

asked Feb 17, 2023 in Waves physics by chesterw

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Can you explain particles as waves and vice versa in quantum mechanics (QM) using analogies?

asked Feb 17, 2023 in Waves physics by tkingy

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Do all electromagnetic waves have the same speed in media (non-vacuum)?

asked Feb 17, 2023 in Waves physics by EmberHorizon

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What is the difference of cutoff frequency to -3dB frequency in an active filter?

asked Feb 17, 2023 in Waves physics by wgr

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If the intensity of an electromagnetic (EM) wave falls off as the square of its distance from its source, does that mean its energy and power fall off even faster than that?

asked Feb 16, 2023 in Waves physics by SeraphicFlare

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Why don't we get double waves for combination tones or beats if their frequencies add up to form another new frequency?

asked Feb 16, 2023 in Waves physics by Rache

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Is it possible to levitate an object with a high pitched sound wave (no magic)?

asked Feb 16, 2023 in Waves physics by archie84

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Can you explain the wave-particle duality of light in the context of refraction?

asked Feb 16, 2023 in Waves physics by ZephyrShade

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Do wave-particle dualities possess subpersonalities?

asked Feb 16, 2023 in Waves physics by Frankie Miller

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How can light be red shifted or blue shifted if it is an electromagnetic wave?

asked Feb 16, 2023 in Waves physics by tricky13

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What is an example of a wave traveling through a medium called a medium? What does a medium consist of?

asked Feb 16, 2023 in Waves physics by buttape

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How does the electric field of an electromagnetic (EM) wave depend on its velocity?

asked Feb 16, 2023 in Waves physics by Bigeard (1.7k points)

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