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  2. Optics - Wikipedia

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    Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. [1] Optics usually describes the behaviour of visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light. Light is a type of electromagnetic radiation, and other forms of ...

  3. Total internal reflection - Wikipedia

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    Total internal reflection. In physics, total internal reflection ( TIR) is the phenomenon in which waves arriving at the interface (boundary) from one medium to another (e.g., from water to air) are not refracted into the second ("external") medium, but completely reflected back into the first ("internal") medium.

  4. Theodolite - Wikipedia

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    A direct-readout theodolite, manufactured in the Soviet Union in 1958 and used for topographic surveying. A theodolite ( / θiˈɒdəˌlaɪt /) [1] is a precision optical instrument for measuring angles between designated visible points in the horizontal and vertical planes. The traditional use has been for land surveying, but it is also used ...

  5. State of Palestine - Wikipedia

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    Palestine ( Arabic: فلسطين, romanized : Filasṭīn [d] ), officially the State of Palestine ( دولة فلسطين, Dawlat Filasṭīn ), [e] is a country in the southern Levant region of West Asia. It encompasses two disconnected territories — the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, collectively known as the Palestinian territories ...

  6. Eye - Wikipedia

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    113, 6734. Anatomical terminology. [ edit on Wikidata] An eye is a sensory organ that allows an organism to perceive visual information. It detects light and converts it into electro-chemical impulses in neurons (neurones). It is part of an organism's visual system . In higher organisms, the eye is a complex optical system that collects light ...

  7. Spectrometer - Wikipedia

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    Spectrometer is a broad term often used to describe instruments that measure a continuous variable of a phenomenon where the spectral components are somehow mixed. In visible light a spectrometer can separate white light and measure individual narrow bands of color, called a spectrum. A mass spectrometer measures the spectrum of the masses of ...