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explain wave nature of light and examples ​

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Answered by vedangdesai96
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Answer:

light behaves a particle as well as a wave which is so mind boggling about the nature of light.

Explanation:

In the 1801 , Young demonstrated Young's experiment or the double-slit experiment is a demonstration that light and matter can display characteristics of both classically defined waves and particles; moreover, it displays the fundamentally probabilistic nature of quantum mechanical phenomena but he concluded that light his a wave but he was partially correct about it. Young's experiment is a solve experiment demonstrating the wave nature of electromagnetic radiation.

but with the discovery of photoelectric effect Einstein concluded that light is divided into small discrete of energy called quanta or as we know it as photons(due to discovery of Planck constant which had solved the blackbody radiation problem). Therefore Einstein concluded the light is a particle using the planck's constant.

E = hf

E is the energy , h is the planck's constant and f is the frequency.

thus light is both a particle and a wave .

I have tried to explain this topic in simplest way possible so I hope this gives you a clearer insite about the nature of light or for any other Quantum particle for that matter

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