Why is refraction of light at a boundary wavelength dependent, and are the two proportional?
23865
Why do prisms work (why is refraction frequency dependent)?
37296
How do dedicated light meters account for light transmittance?
155316
Are two waves out of phase only when the phase difference is $\pi$?
40182
How come unpolarized light does not undergo destructive interference?
67057
Why do some materials reflect (metals) and other materials reflect and refract (glass) from the quantum perspective?
85886
Polarization of light upon reflection
97032
Does light accelerate or slow down during reflection?
76425
Standing waves due to two counter-propagating travelling waves of different amplitude
15895
Why is there a difference between additive and subtractive trichromatic color theories?
61988
Why do two beams of light pass through one another without interacting?
117791
Why does the frequency of a wave remain constant?
38797
Why don't waves with different wavelengths interfere with each other in white-light?
23937
What is the mechanism behind the slowdown of light/photons in a transparent medium?
12597
Does the speed of medium affect the path of light?
114913
What exactly is meant by the wavelength of a photon?
106022
Why does optical media have different refractive indices?
130201
Imaginary number for extinction coefficient in complex refractive index