The dual nature of light suggests that light exhibits the characteristics of both waves and particles. Light can seem to be particles in that it has discrete chunks (quanta, photons) of energy. Light can also seem to be waves, such as when you have light of one color go through two slits the light from the two paths interfere and cause bands of light and dark on a screen behind the slits. People have 'proven' that light is one or the other, but the truth is in between. You might think of a photon as a little packet of waves, as if you took a long rope or hose and sent a burst of waves down it.
Light is more commonly known as photons in particle physics. Photons sometimes act like billiard balls, meaning they come into contact with matter and reflect, deflect, absorb, or refract off of it. On the other hand, photons sometimes act like waves and interfere with one another and themselves in such a way that only waves could be the possible answer for their actions.
I want to make sure that it is understood that not only does the photon itself act like a ball, it also itself acts like a wave - all by itself. No matter what experiment you do, either the photons will act like billiard balls, or will act like waves.
It's called the "wave/particle duality" of the nature of light (and all other forms of
electromagnetic radiation too).
It means that if you set up an experiment to detect and measure the behavior of waves,
you find that light has it. And then, if you set up a different experiment to detect and measure
the behavior of particles, you find that light has plenty of that too. Whichever kind of behavior
you're looking for, light has it.
If you are referring to the wave-particle duality of light, it is a theory Albert Einstein came up with. The way light acted really confused scientists. Light sometimes acts like a wave, and sometimes acts like a bunch of particles. Albert Einstein ran a multitude of tests. After all of his tests he came to the conclusion that light is unique in that sometimes it can act like a wave, and sometimes it can act like particles.
Light is electromagnetic radiation. It's a moving electric field that is propagated simultaneously with a moving magnetic field each set at right angles to the other. Light's standard unit of issue is the photon. Light has wave-particle duality, and that is its nature. The properties it exhibits, its behavior in a given situation, may be that of a particle or that of a wave, depending on the circumstances under which light is observed. Light will not be pinned down more than that. Is it a wave? Is it a particle? It's a wavicle. Get used to it. And hit the links for more info.
Nature of light : Light has wave-particle duality . If you didn't understand this answer you may move to another similiar question such as : what is the precise nature of light ? you'll get what you need. :)
Light is composed of photons of different wavelengths. Photons are massless particles or packets of energy. All photons travel at the speed of light, 3.0 x 108m/s.
Light is an electromagnetic wave.
Light is light. We have several models to explain the behavior of light, the photon and the wave model are two of them.
The nature of light depends upon how you are observing it. Light has what is known as wave-particle duality. That is to say, it shows both the characteristics of a wave (for more information look up the Young's slits experiment on Google), and of a particle or "packet" of light known as a photon. So the nature of light is either a particle or a wave, but it depends on the method which you use to observe the light. Which begs the unanswerable question: What is light when you aren't observing it :-)
That means that light sometimes behaves as a stream of particles, and sometimes as a wave. It really depends what experiment is done on the light. The same can be said of different elementary particles, such as electrons - they are usually considered "particles", but in certain experiments, they, too, manifest a wave nature. For more details, read the Wikipedia article on "wave-particle duality" (or some other source of information).
Light acts like both a particle and a wave.
Light has two natures that can be thought of as both a wave and a particle.
The dual nature of light is that its photons are simultaneously an object which has mass and a waveform of moving force.
Light was thought either to consist of waves by Huygens or of particles by Newton.
Light has a dual nature, as outlined by Albert Einstein. That means that light has properties of both transverse waves and particles.
Because the light waves travel through its molecules. Alternative answer: Light waves have a dual nature; one electromagnetic and another a photonic wave. These waves travel through air, hitting all kinds of objects. Some of these objects are transparent (glass), which allow the light waves to pass only in the form of photonic wave. After the light wave pass through the object (glass), it obtains back its dual nature.
Light is said to be of dual nature so it has particle nature as well as wave nature but there is a difference in waves and electromagnetic waves. so ,as for your question "Is light a electromagnetic wave" the answer is "no"More precisely, if visible is not an electromagnetic wave, the NO part of the electromagnetic spectrum could be considered to be an electromagnetic wave. By any definition of the term, the answer is 'Yes'
particle and wave
It means that if you design an experiment to detect the behavior of particles, andrun light through it, light behaves as if it's made of particles. And if you design anexperiment to detect the behavior of waves, and run light through it, light behavesas if it's made of waves. Light has a "dual nature". That means it acts like two thingsthat we always thought were separate ... waves andparticles.
Light was thought either to consist of waves by Huygens or of particles by Newton.
Light is meant to help you see but if too bright it can blind you.
Light has a dual nature, as outlined by Albert Einstein. That means that light has properties of both transverse waves and particles.
In 1924 de Broglie proposed that a material particle such as an electron might have a dual nature.
Louis De Broglie in 1921 discovered the dual nature of radiations
The wave-particle duality theory. This explains why sometimes light appears to travel as a wave, and why sometimes it appears to travel as a particle.
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light travel as a wave but it carries photon which is consider to be a particle.so photon done function as a particle and wave motion made effect as wave.
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