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Everything in Quantum Mechanics does, not just light.
The reason it has to be modeled that way is because in experiments that are designed to detect particle behavior, things behave like a stream of particles, whereas in experiments that are designed to detect wave behavior, things behave like a wave. This has been verified experimentally with practically everything on the quantum scale: light, subatomic particles, atoms, thermal vibrations (phonons), quantum dots (composed of millions of atoms) in semiconductor crystals, etc.
Nobody really understands why nature is this way, we just know it is.
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What type of wave can travel to space?
im pretty sure shock waves do. and light wave def. do.
Which type of energy travels in waves?
An electromagnetic wave, such as light.An electromagnetic wave, such as light.An electromagnetic wave, such as light.An electromagnetic wave, such as light.
Driver for Light wave Lw Ic 400 camera?
yes
What is light transmission?
Light is also a kind of energy. It is transformed not as mechanical wave. Because mechanical wave definitely needs a material medium to get propagated. Sound energy is transmitted only as a mechanical wave. Without air medium sound cannot be propagated. But light does not need such material medium. It can pass even through free space in the form of electromagnetic wave. The general concept is: When any disturbance is made any where at any time in the space that would be propagated to other places. This is what we call transmission of light disturbance.
What is another name for surface waves?
another name for pressure wave is a P-wave EDIT: Another name for P-waves or Pressure waves are Compressional, Longitudinal, P, Dilation waves. The particle motion is in the direction of wave propagation These waves occur in Solids, Liquids, and Gases whereas Shear, transverse, S, or equivoluminal waves only occur in solids.
What are the dual properties of light?
it can behave like a particle and like a wave (a photon and the E.M spectrum) are the dual properties of light.
The particle model of light explains how light can?
The particle model explains compton scattering and the photo-electric effect perfectly, which the wave model utterly fails to do. The full spectrum of blackbody radiation can be easily derived with the particle model of light, but not with the wave model.
What law explains dual nature of light?
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.
How do you Use the word Particle model in a sentence?
During the life of Isaac Newton, there was a huge scientific debate between proponents of the wave model of light and the particle model of light. This was resolved in the 20th century by quantum mechanics which showed that light is both a particle and a wave.
What is a photon model?
Two models were developed to explain what light is, the photon model, which depicts light as a particle, and the wave model. In the field of quantum mechanics it is now recognized that light is both a particle and a wave (sometimes called a wavicle).
What two models explain the properties of electromagnetic waves?
The wave model of light and the particle model of light.
Why light posses dual nature?
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.
Compare wave and particle models of light. What phenomena can only be explained by the particle model?
The photoelectric effect is a phenomena that can only be explained by the particle model.
How do you detect if light is a particle or a wave?
Light is both a wave and a particle depending on circumstances; this is referred to as the wave-particle duality of light.
What is dual nature of radiant energy?
particle and wave
A gamma ray is a very high speed particle with no charge?
Sort of. A gamma ray is a photon, which is a particle/wave moving at the speed of light, because it is light.Photons are the gauge particles for the electromagnetic force, but they don't carry an electric charge themselves.
What does the dual nature of electrons mean?
it behaves as a particle and as a wave
