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    The Dual Nature of Light

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    Light can behave as both a particle and a wave. Historically, scientists proposed different models, with Newton viewing light as a particle and Huygens viewing it as a wave. Later, Einstein revived the particle theory, and now the accepted view is that light has a dual nature, exhibiting both wave properties like interference and diffraction and particle properties like traveling in straight lines and changing directions with reflection and refraction.

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    Light can behave as both a particle and a wave. Historically, scientists proposed different models, with Newton viewing light as a particle and Huygens viewing it as a wave. Later, Einstein revived the particle theory, and now the accepted view is that light has a dual nature, exhibiting both wave properties like interference and diffraction and particle properties like traveling in straight lines and changing directions with reflection and refraction.

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    Light can behave as both a particle and a wave. Historically, scientists proposed different models, with Newton viewing light as a particle and Huygens viewing it as a wave. Later, Einstein revived the particle theory, and now the accepted view is that light has a dual nature, exhibiting both wave properties like interference and diffraction and particle properties like traveling in straight lines and changing directions with reflection and refraction.

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    Light can behave as both a particle and a wave. Historically, scientists proposed different models, with Newton viewing light as a particle and Huygens viewing it as a wave. Later, Einstein revived the particle theory, and now the accepted view is that light has a dual nature, exhibiting both wave properties like interference and diffraction and particle properties like traveling in straight lines and changing directions with reflection and refraction.

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    The passage discusses how scientists' understanding of the nature of light evolved from thinking of it as either a particle or wave to recognizing its dual nature.

    Early scientists like Newton viewed light as particles, while Huygens saw it as waves. Later, evidence emerged supporting both views, leading to the modern concept of light having both wave-like and particle-like properties.

    Examples of light behaving as particles include traveling in straight lines and changing direction during reflection or refraction. Examples of wave-like behavior include interference, diffraction, and polarization.

    Models

    Used for the usefulness of things we cannot see, and


    is ever-changing

    For example..the model of the atom, our current


    model of light, the elegibunnybutterduck
    The Nature of Light
    The History of the Nature of Light
    How would light act if it were a particle, if it were a wave ?
    Light Is a Particle! (Sir Isaac Newton)

    Newton thought that light was a particle because the


    edges of the shadows it created was extremely sharp
    and clear.
    Light Is a Wave! ( Christian Huygens)

    About the same time as Newton, Dutch physicist,


    Christian Huygens, believed that light was made up
    of waves vibrating up and down perpendicular to the
    direction of the light travels. It explained diffraction
    and could be demonstrated through
    experimentation.
    Light Is Also a Particle! (Einstein)
    The theory of light being a particle completely
    vanished until the end of the 19th century when
    Albert Einstein revived it.

    Einstein believed light is a particle (photon) .

    Scientists have combined both theorys


    The Dual Nature of light is the accepted and
    current concept of the nature of light.
    The Dual Nature of Light
    Light is a form of energy.

    Sometimes it behaves like a particle and


    sometimes it behaves like a wave .

     For this reason, light is said to have a dual nature


    The properties of light can be summarized into two groups…with its dual
    nature

    3 "particle" properties and 3 "wave" properties

    1) Travels in straight lines 1) Interference (waves


    2) Reflection (changes "superpose" and pass right
    direction) through each other)
    3) Refraction (bends, in 2) Diffraction (waves "spill
    going from one material to over" the edges of their
    another) obstructions)
    3) Polarization (eliminating
    one of light's "fields")
    The Dual Nature of Light
    Particle properties of light Wave properties of light

    difficult to explain using the difficult to explain using the


    wave theory particle theory
    Where does the Photoelectric Effect fall, proof of particle or
    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.
    The Dual Nature of Light
    State the three “wave” properties of light

    Interference

    Diffraction

    Polarization
    The Dual Nature of Light
    State the three “particle” properties of light

    1) Travels in straight lines


    2) Reflection
    3) Refraction
    The Dual Nature of Light
    In your own words, define a photon.

    A photon is a packet of energy traveling at a speed of


    3 x 108 m/s
    Each color is a different photon having a different
    amount of energy.
     A photon of red light has the least amount of energy,
    while a photon of violet light has the greatest amount
    of energy.
    The Dual Nature of Light
    Define light and explain what is meant by the phrase
    "the dual nature of light“

    Light is a form of energy and has a dual nature. This


    means that light possesses both particle properties
    and wave properties.

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