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Which statement best describes the ideas of two scientists who studied properties of light?
Newton and Maxwell had similar ideas about light being made of particles.
Hertz extended Maxwell’s idea that light is produced by the interaction of electric and magnetic fields.
Young supported Newton’s idea of the wave theory of light after observing light spread out in all directions.
Huygens agreed with Maxwell that light has properties of both particles and waves.
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"Hertz extended Maxwell’s idea that light is produced by the interaction of electric and magnetic fields."
Why: Maxwell formulated light as electromagnetic waves (oscillating electric and magnetic fields); Hertz experimentally produced and detected electromagnetic waves, confirming and extending Maxwell’s theory. The other statements are incorrect: Newton favored a particle (corpuscular) theory, Young supported the wave theory (not Newton’s), and Huygens proposed wave theory long before Maxwell and did not argue a particle–wave duality.
Why: Maxwell formulated light as electromagnetic waves (oscillating electric and magnetic fields); Hertz experimentally produced and detected electromagnetic waves, confirming and extending Maxwell’s theory. The other statements are incorrect: Newton favored a particle (corpuscular) theory, Young supported the wave theory (not Newton’s), and Huygens proposed wave theory long before Maxwell and did not argue a particle–wave duality.
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