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What is an explanation of how energy travels in waves to produce light and sound?
Light travels in waves, and sound travels in waves. However, sound waves and light waves are very different, and it is important not to confuse the two. Light travels in electromagnetic waves, and sound does not. Sound waves are caused by vibration.
What happens to the speed and wavelenght and frequency of a wave when it reaches the boundary between two media?
Frequency never changes since it depends only on source. Speed can either increase or decrease, depending on the direction of travel of light. This would cause an increase or decrease in wavelength respectively. Speed increases when light travels from an optically denser medium to an optically less dense one. (For example, when light travels from water to air) Speed decreases when light travels from an optically less dense medium to an optically denser medium.
If two light waves start out in phase with one another but one travels two wavelengths farther than the other before they come together will the waves be in phase or out of phase when they combine?
in phase
What properties do light waves and waves in a fishpond share?
There are TWO THEORIES of light propagation, WAVE and PARTICLE. The WAVE theory shares commonality with waves in a Pond in that they are both represented by a SINE Wave. They each have an Amplitude and a Frequency.
How does light travel when the medium it travels through changes and how does light travel when the medium does not change?
Light travels in straight lines when the medium's density is constant. When light enters a different density perpendicularly, it also travels in a straight line. When light enters a higher density at an angle, it bends towards an imaginary line perpendicular to its pont of entry. When light enters a lower density medium, it bends away from the imaginary perpendicular line. This is seen with objects partially submerged in water. The light exits the water and bends away from its normal path, making the object appear crooked in relation to the unsubmerged portion. Sometimes light will be reflected at the boundary of two mediums. This is seen in optic fibres.
How does light traval?
it is particularly hard question to answer because there are many theories regarding how light in particularly travels, one theory says it's a wave and another says it's a particle. based on these two theories, there are question about the behaviour of light that can be answered but it is not 100% that which theory is correct, because light behaves as a wave and a particle. how does light travel in vacuum is misery, it has some form of magnetic radiation that it creates for itself that it can travel.
What is an explanation of how energy travels in waves to produce light and sound?
Light travels in waves, and sound travels in waves. However, sound waves and light waves are very different, and it is important not to confuse the two. Light travels in electromagnetic waves, and sound does not. Sound waves are caused by vibration.
What is called when light travels through two things and bends?
Refraction
How was the Windeby Girl discovered?
there are two main theories that are accepted in the world of historians:By a shovel; andThrough the use of dark magic
Light travels than sound Describe how you could show to a friend?
When the two clouds bang one another creates lightening, the light travels than the sound.... Girish.
How far does light travel in two second?
372,564.7941 miles.
What did rocky marciano's wife die?
There are two accepted theories: 1. He beat the hell out of her 2. She swallowed
Is light considered a molecule?
No, it's not. But there are two theories as to the nature of light. One says it's a wave-form and the other says it's particulate. Both theories hold water in that they can be used to deduce the expected behaviour of light under different circumstances.
What are the two theories that are not accepted today?
There's any number of beliefs that were once held but rejected in favour of more accurate models. There is insufficient information in the question to answer coherently.
When light is incident on a boundary between two mediums it often slows down or speeds up. when it does this the path the light travels can change. this is called?
refraction
Who had two theories of relativity and was big in quantum mechanics?
Albert Einstein developed the theories of general relativity and special relativity. He also did work in quantum theory. (He won a Nobel prize for his work with light.)
What are the features of a good scientific model that can lead to it becoming accepted without anybody seeing the thing that the model suggests is there?
Like all scientific models and theories, there are two things which lead to it becoming accepted: predictions being accurate, and the absence of contrary evidence.
