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     • But all behavior of light can be explained by combining the two models: light behaves like particles and light behaves like waves. It’s not as odd as it might seem, either. Particles and waves are sometimes conceived as opposites, but they’re not. Also, light is not the only thing that exhibits behavior of both particles and waves.
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2. www.livescience.com › physics-mathematics › particleIs light a particle or a wave? - Live Science

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   20 hours ago · According to Sapienza, this isn't the right question to be asking. "Light is not sometimes a particle and sometimes a wave," he said. "It is always both a wave and a particle. It's just that we ...

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4. education.cosmosmagazine.com › explainer-is-lightEXPLAINER: Is light a wave or a particle? - COSMOS Education

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   Light can be described both as a wave and as a particle. There are two experiments in particular that have revealed the dual nature of light. When we’re thinking of light as being made of...

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   Mar 12, 2024 · The wave happily does its wave tricks, like superposition and interference, and the particle acts like a respectable particle, resolutely refusing to be in two different places at once. If the wave, for instance, undergoes destructive interference, becoming nearly zero in a particular region of space, then the particle simply is not guided into ...

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   Jan 16, 2013 · In an approximate way, light is both a particle and a wave. But in an exact representation, light is neither a particle nor a wave, but is something more complex. As a metaphor, consider a cylindrical can of beans.

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   Feb 24, 2016 · Light is a particle (a photon), that acts like a wave ("both a particle and a wave"), which can be measured as an excited quantized state of the electromagnetic field.

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   Is light a wave or a particle?

   • Thanks for your great question. Light can be described both as a wave and as a particle. There are two experiments in particular that have revealed the dual nature of light. When we’re thinking of light as being made of particles, these particles are called “photons”. Photons have no mass, and each one carries a specific amount of energy.

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   Does light act like a particle?

   • In other words, light was behaving as a particle in these experiments. So, different kinds of physics experiments were revealing different kinds of properties of light. Sometimes, light acted like a wave, and sometimes, light acted like a particle.

   Is It a Wave or a Particle? It's Both, Sort Of. - Space.com

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   What would happen if light was only a particle?

   • Neither the pure wave theory nor the pure particle theory can explain the results. If light was only a particle and not a wave, there would be no interference effect. The result of the experiment would be like firing a hail of bullets through a double slit, j. Only two spots directly behind the slits would be hit.

   14.2: Light As a Particle - Physics LibreTexts

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   Does light act like a wave?

   • This is exactly what water waves would do when passing through two narrow channels. Some of the light waves would add together, and some of the waves would cancel out, leaving a striped pattern on the back screen. This is pretty solid evidence that light acts like a wave, because this is exactly what waves do.

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   Is a water wave a particle or a wave?

   • There would be no discrete dots in the photo, only a diffraction pattern that shaded smoothly between light and dark. k / A water wave passes through a double slit. Applying the definitions to this experiment, light must be both a particle and a wave. It is a wave because it exhibits interference effects.

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   What does light look like if it is a beam of particles?

   • If light is a beam of particles, or in other words a beam of photons, you would expect to see a similar pattern to that made by the tennis balls where the light particles strike the wall. That, however, isn’t what you see. Instead, you see a complex pattern of stripes. Why? This is because light, in this situation, acts like a wave.

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   Sep 30, 2019 · Just like light, sometimes matter acts like a particle, and sometimes, it acts like a wave. So, are light and matter made of waves or particles? The answer is both, sort of.