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1. 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 ...

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

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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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3. www.britannica.com › story › how-is-light-both-aHow Is Light Both a Particle and a Wave? | Britannica

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   If light is a particle, then why does it refract when travelling from one medium to another? And if light is a wave, then why does it dislodge electrons ? But all behavior of light can be explained by combining the two models: light behaves like particles and light behaves like waves.

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

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   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. Meanwhile, when we think...

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

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   Is light a wave or a particle? How is it created? And why can’t humans see the whole spectrum of light? All your questions answered.

6. physics.stackexchange.com › questions › 627177What is light, a wave or a particle or A wave-particle?

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   Apr 5, 2021 · What is light, a wave or a particle or A wave-particle? Light is represented by the classical electromagnetic wave and it can shown that it is an emergent superposition of a very large number of particles called photons.

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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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   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.

   What is light? A guide to waves, particles, colour and more

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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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   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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   Is light an electromagnetic wave?

   • Therefore, we conclude that light is an electromagnetic wave. The frequency of light is extremely high. Therefore, a compass needle cannot respond fast enough to react to the change in the magnetic field in light. Light is absorbed and emitted in quantized bits of energy that we call photons.

   What is light, a wave or a particle or A wave-particle?

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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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8. phys.libretexts.org › Courses › University_of2.1: Light as a Wave - Physics LibreTexts

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   May 24, 2024 · We know that light is a wave based on how it behaves – it exhibits the same properties of other waves we have examined – it interferes with itself, it follows an inverse-square law for intensity (brightness), and so on.