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What your experiment is designed to detect. If your experiment looks for wave characteristics, it will observe them, and if it's set up to detect particle behavior, it'll find that too. Weird but true.
Electromagnetic energy (e.g. light, x-rays, and other types corresponding to different parts of the spectrum) exhibit wave-particle duality, which means a it has properties of both particles and waves. The photon is the particle aspect, and a specialized solution of Maxwell's equations describes the wave aspect. It's a lot like interpreting a chessboard as a black board with white squares or a white board with black squares; it can be viewed as either one, and on some level it's both.
It can be hard to wrap one's mind around this, but keep in mind that the particle nature of light as we now understand it was the first step that mankind took into the world of quantum physics. It all gets easier when you stop expecting quantum to make intuitive sense to people who live in the Newtonian world (people like all of us.)
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What does the frequency of a light wave tell you?
The frequency of a light wave tells you how many wave cycles pass a given point in one second. It determines the color of the light: higher frequencies correspond to colors like blue and violet, while lower frequencies correspond to colors like red and orange.
Do light wave frequencies determine what color you see?
Yes, light wave frequencies determine the color you see. Different frequencies of light waves correspond to different colors in the visible spectrum that our eyes can perceive. For example, red light has a lower frequency and longer wavelength, while blue light has a higher frequency and shorter wavelength.
What determines the color of light that we see?
The color of light that we see is determined by its wavelength. Different wavelengths of light correspond to different colors that we perceive.
How many light are in one photon?
It doesn't work that way. Light consists of individual particles (pieces) called photons; any light consists of one or more photons - in any case, a whole number of photons. If you can see any light, it is most likely that it has much more than just one photon - probably millions of them.
What does a light wave look like?
A light wave is an electromagnetic wave that travels in a straight line. It is not visible to the naked eye, but we can perceive it when it interacts with other objects. The properties of a light wave include wavelength, frequency, and amplitude, which determine its color and intensity.
What does the frequency of a light wave tell you?
The frequency of a light wave tells you how many wave cycles pass a given point in one second. It determines the color of the light: higher frequencies correspond to colors like blue and violet, while lower frequencies correspond to colors like red and orange.
What does a photon see when it looks in the mirror?
Another photon approaching at the speed of light. Photons have no sensory organs so they cannot "see" anything.
Is a photon visible?
The photon doesn't have a figure one can relate to. We can't say a photon looks like this -- or like that, because there's nothing in the world we see with our eyes day by day that looks like a photon.
What give us light?
Light is given by a subatomic particle called a photon. All types of light are transferred by this from gamma rays to microwaves. Although It is called a particle from the double slit experiment we can see that the photon can act like particle and a wave
What is a light wave?
Visible light waves are the only electromagnetic waves we can see. We see these waves as the colors of the rainbow. Each color has a different wavelength. Red has the longest wavelength and violet has the shortest wavelength. When all the waves are seen together, they make white light.
What is the smallest thing a human can see a distance?
According to Quantum Theory, if light consists of a photon then photon will be the smallest particle to which human can observed because human eye can see any thing if a light rays get reflected from any object or matter
Do light wave frequencies determine what color you see?
Yes, light wave frequencies determine the color you see. Different frequencies of light waves correspond to different colors in the visible spectrum that our eyes can perceive. For example, red light has a lower frequency and longer wavelength, while blue light has a higher frequency and shorter wavelength.
What determines the color of light that we see?
The color of light that we see is determined by its wavelength. Different wavelengths of light correspond to different colors that we perceive.
Why can you hear around corners but not see around corners?
In physics the equation (VELOCITY) = (LAMBDA) X (FREQUENCY) is used for both sound and light. Velocity is the speed of the wave (sound or light or whatever) Lambda is the wavelength (The distance it takes for a wave to make an entire cycle) and the frequency is how fast the wave vibrates. Light is sometimes treated as a wave like sound is, even though it is also sometimes treated as a particle called a photon. The wavelength for sound however is about half a meter, while light has a wavelength about a billion times smaller than that! That means that the sound waves reflect around corners a lot, while light doesn't very much. It still does though, and was discovered by a man named Thomas Yound in the early 1800s. You can see the wave nature of light at home: in a dark room, stick a hair in front of a laser (like $10 at the store) and turn it on. You should see a line of light and dark because light is a wave.
What do we see that the amplitude of a wave produces?
The amplitude of a wave produces the intensity of the wave. With a light wave, it is the intensity of the light, with a sound wave, it is how loud the sound is
How many light are in one photon?
It doesn't work that way. Light consists of individual particles (pieces) called photons; any light consists of one or more photons - in any case, a whole number of photons. If you can see any light, it is most likely that it has much more than just one photon - probably millions of them.
Why we can't see a photon?
We can see a photon in the sense that it is photons that are going into our eyes so that we can see things. The human eye is just on the verge of being able to detect an individual photon. If our eyes were able to detect individual photons, we would see a very small flash of light when one entered one of our eyes. As it is, everything we see is the result of photons entering our eyes. The energy of the photon, determines the color that we see.
