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When we design an experiment that detects wave behavior.
They behave more like particles when we design the experiment
to detect particle behavior.
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Was feynman wrong in saying light is a particle?
Most likely not. Light is made up of photons, and even photons have mass..Thus light is a particle as particles are mass. But to confuse you, even though light = photons & photons = particle & particle = mass; the photons also act as a wave. Which is rather incredible, because it means that a mass also acts as a wave.
What is a form of electromagnetic energy is made up of streams of photons?
An electromagnetic wave, or electromagnetic radiation.
What is the difference between the nature of water wave and a sound wave?
Water has substance and weight behind it . Light, well that's photons. You can feel them, that's about it .
Does light behave as a wave or a particle in chemistry?
Light doesn't really feature in chemistry but on the rare occasions it does it is as a wave and a form of energy, not a particle.
Why do photon of red light has a less penetrative ability than a gamma ray photon?
The energy of a photon is correlated with its wave frequency - and gamma rays are by definition very high frequency photons compared to red light photons.
When does a photon behave like a wave and when does it behave like a particle?
Photons always behave somewhat like waves and somewhat like particles. We think of these as being basically different types of things, but on the subatomic scale, they blend into each other, and the distinction is lost.
Does light behave like a particle or a wave?
Both. For more information, read the Wikipedia article (or some other source) on "wave-particle duality".
Does light behave only like a wave?
No it also behaves like a particle
Which theory of light is the photon more consistent with the wave theory or the particle theory?
this is a much more complicated question than perhaps you realise. try looking up "wave particle duality" photons have the strange characteristic of haveing properties of both a wave and a particle.
What is the common property of all electromagnetic radiation?
They all behave like a wave (which can be caracterized by frequency and wave lenght)
Electromagnetic radiation behaves like a particle when it?
Light can behave as a particle and a wave at the same time. An example of light acting as both a particle and a wave is the digital camera---the lens refracts (bends and focuses) waves of light that hit a charge-coupled device (CCD). The photons kick electrons out of the silicon in the CCD. The electrons are detected by electronics that interpret the number of electrons released and their position of release from the silicon to create an image. Another example is when you observe the build-up of the alternating light and dark pattern from diffraction (a wave phenomenon) from light passing through a narrow slit. You see one bright spot (a photon), then another bright spot (another photon), then another... until the diffraction pattern is created from all of the accumulated photons. This happens so quickly that it is undetectable to the human eye.
When does light behave like wave and when does it behave like a particle?
Look at the related question, for some good info about this. It looks like it does both all of the time, but sometimes it is more convenient to use one method or the other. When you are evaluating it on a macroscopic scale, then the wave equations are what you want to use. When you are looking at very small scale behavior, then particle evaluation makes more sense.
What makes up a light wave?
Photons
Electrons behave like what?
Electrons behave like waves and particles this is characterised by the wave side in the Bohr model and can be diffracted yet it will collide with other particles.
How can you prove that light in the form of wave?
in light photons are there they have energy and energy can be transfered in form of a wave so, it can be a wave
Is electricity a particle or a wave?
An electron is a particle which has such a tiny mass that it moves perceptibly wave-like, instead of following trajectories as we would expect from a moving object. In the beginning of the 20th century scientists discovered that all particles behave like waves. This wavelike behaviour is most obvious in objects with a very, very tiny mass, like electrons, neutrons and photons. It was discovered that electrons don't always move in well defined trajectories. Instead, they seem to spread around a probability wave through space. The probability of detecting an electron in a particular location depends on the amplitude of this wave. Depending on the circumstances, this probability wave can can exhibit interference and diffraction (like any wave), resulting in distinctly wave-like behaviour. All objects (including objects as large as virusses, humans and planets) behave in this wave-like manner. But the probability wave of such a heavy object has such a very, very small wavelength, that its motion can be approximated accurately by trajectories. We are lucky that this is the case, because the wave description of motion is much more difficult to calculate that the trajectory description.
What is one way that light differs from sound?
sound is a wave. while light has wave-particle duality. It acts like a wave but consisting of tiny packets (particles) called photons. hope this helps.
