Newton proposed the particle theory of light to explain the bending of light upon reflection from a mirror or upon refraction when passing from air into water. In his view, light was a stream of particles emitted from a light source, entering the eye to stimulate sight. Newton's contemporary Christian Huygens showed that a wave theory of light could explain the laws of reflection and refraction. In the late 1800s, James Clerk Maxwell predicted, and then Gustav Ludwig Hertz verified, the existence of electromagnetic waves traveling at the speed of light. A complete conceptualization of the nature of light includes light as a particle, as a wave, and as electromagnetic radiation.
On a more concrete level, the properties of light include
*light travels in straight lines
*light can be reflected
*light can be bent (refracted)
*light is a form of energy
*light can be diffracted
*light shows interference.
Light waves, sound waves, X-rays and ocean waves are some examples of waves. All of them share three basic characteristics: wavelength, frequency and amplitude.
colour brightness form shape movement
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The type of waves that are electromagnetic are the visible light waves
light colored and smooth. these characteristics will allow the waves to reflect and bounce off rather than absorb.
Electromagnetic radiation.
slow down.
Light has the property of being an electromagnetic wave.
Yes, light has both properties of light, and waves.
both waves and particles
particles
a wave model of light.
Well to be honest it really depends on what type of waves you are thinking about, until then there is not a conclusive answer to your question.
The speed calculated for such waves, which happened to be precisely the speed of light.
Light isanalogous in many ways to sound and many of the equations used to describe sound also apply to light, but there are limitations. Sound waves don't really polarize the way light waves do for example. Light also displays some characteristics of particle behavior that contradict its wave behavior - again making it different from sound.
nature of waves is the characteristics of a waves
Radio waves exhibit properties and characteristics of behavior that are in every way identical to the properties and characteristics of light waves. That is, they experience absorption, transmission, reflection, refraction, diffraction, dispersion, interference, attenuation, and inverse-square free space loss, exactly following all of the laws of optics. Note that the laws of optics always involve the wavelength in question. When comparing radio waves with light waves, one must take into consideration the fact that the shortest radio waves are almost 4,000 times longer than the longest light waves.
Visible light waves are electromagnetic waves, within a certain range of frequencies. The wavelength of visible light is between about 400 and 700 nm. Some of the characteristics of electromagnetic waves include:* Carried by particles called photons* The wave is a wave in the electric and magnetic fields* In a vacuum, this wave (and the photons) propagates at the so-called speed of light, which is about 300 million meters/second.
Radiant Energy is electromagnetic energy that travels in transverse waves. Radiant energy includes visible light, x-rays, gamma rays and radio waves
nature of waves is the characteristics of a waves