Question
What evidence can you cite for the wave nature of light? For the particle nature of light?
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drwls
What evidence can you cite for the wave nature of light?
Diffraction
Focusing by lenses
Constructive and destructive interference
Rainbow colors in a thin layer of oil on water
Refraction
Rainbows
For the particle nature of light?
The photoelectic effect
Photolysis by short-wave radiation
Photon-counting detectors
The Compton effect (X-ray scattering by particles)
Diffraction
Focusing by lenses
Constructive and destructive interference
Rainbow colors in a thin layer of oil on water
Refraction
Rainbows
For the particle nature of light?
The photoelectic effect
Photolysis by short-wave radiation
Photon-counting detectors
The Compton effect (X-ray scattering by particles)
drwls
For the particle nature of light?:
Hereare a few more:
Stimulated emission (lasers)
The long-wavelength cutoff of solar cells
The Planck blackbody radiation law
Electron-positron recombination (gamma) radiation
K-capture radioactivity
Hereare a few more:
Stimulated emission (lasers)
The long-wavelength cutoff of solar cells
The Planck blackbody radiation law
Electron-positron recombination (gamma) radiation
K-capture radioactivity