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1. • • Today, there's no doubt about the answer: Light is both a particle and a wave. But how did scientists reach this mind-bending conclusion? The starting point was to scientifically distinguish between waves and particles. "You would describe an object as a particle if you can identify it as a point in space," Sapienza said.
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2. astro101.wwu.edu › a101_lightwavesAstroPages | Light Waves | Western Washington University

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   Light Waves. Light radiates from a source in waves. Each wave has two parts; an electric part, and a magnetic part. That's why light is called Electromagnetic Radiation.

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

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   Einstein had a great explanation for this peculiar observation. He hypothesised light is made of particles, and is in fact not a wave. He then linked the intensity of light to the number of...

4. www.sciencefocus.com › science › what-is-lightWhat is light? A guide to waves, particles, colour and more

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   Brian Clegg. Published: October 25, 2021 at 10:00 am. Is light a wave or a particle? Neither: light is its own unique phenomenon – the outcome of an interaction between electrical and magnetic fields – and it behaves like both waves and particles. Most of us were taught at school that light is a wave. This is because it does things that waves do.

5. letstalkscience.ca › light-and-its-propertiesLight and Its Properties - Let's Talk Science

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   • Waves of Light
   • Colours of Light
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   These different colours of light have different wavelengths and frequencies. Red light has the longest wavelength, and the lowest frequency of the visible spectrum. Violet has the shortest wavelength, and the highest frequency of the visible spectrum.

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   Mixing coloured materials, such as paint, is an example of subtractive colour mixing. Red paint appears red to us because when white light strikes it, the red pigments reflect the red wavelengths of light and absorball of the wavelengths. This reflected light is what is seen by our eyes. The same is true for all of the other colours. So what about ...

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   Light travels very fast - at the speed of light in fact!

   Light travels as waves.

   Light travels in straight lines.

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6. www.bbc.co.uk › bitesize › articlesLight Waves - BBC Bitesize

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   Light enters the box through the pinhole and an image is formed on the translucent screen. The image is upside down and smaller than the object. A ray diagram to show focusing in a pinhole camera...

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   Is light a particle or a wave?

   • This too pointed to an intimate relationship between the properties and oscillation frequency of light as a wave and the properties and momentum (energy) of light as a particle, or in other words, the dual nature of light as both a particle and a wave. Do Other Particles Besides Photons Become Waves?

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   Why is light called electromagnetic radiation?

   • Light is called electromagnetic radiation because each wave has an electric part and a magnetic part. Our brains interpret light waves by assigning different colors to the different wavelengths, but much of the light in the Universe travels with wavelengths too short or too long for the human eye to detect.

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   Is light a wave?

   • Most of us were taught at school that light is a wave. This is because it does things that waves do. So, for example, waves undergo interference. To understand this, imagine that you’ve just dropped two stones in a still pond. Each of those stones will create ripples, with the water creating waves that move up and down.

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   Why is light a type of electromagnetic wave?

   • The various properties of light, which is a type of electromagnetic wave, are due to the behavior of extremely small particles called photons that are invisible to the naked eye. What Is the Photoelectric Effect?

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   What is the wave theory of light?

   • In the wave theory of light, these oscillations are linked to two properties of light: intensity and frequency. Simply put, the frequency of a light wave is the number of peaks that pass a point in space in a given period (like when a certain number of ripples strike the boat within a specific time).

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   What are the properties of light waves?

   • Light has the properties of waves. Like ocean waves, light waves have crests and troughs. The distance between one crest and the next, which is the same as the distance between one trough and the next, is called the wavelength. The frequency of a wave is the number of crests (or troughs) that pass a point in one second.

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   The light particle conceived by Einstein is called a photon. The main point of his light quantum theory is the idea that light's energy is related to its oscillation frequency (known as frequency in the case of radio waves). Oscillation frequency is equal to the speed of light divided by its wavelength.