Introduction to the Nature of Light
This presentation, The Nature of Light, talks about three things:
1.What is light made of?
2.How can light be categorized?
3.What kind of characteristics does light have?
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The physical demonstration itself involves a laser beam directed at 5
different objects to show various diffraction and interference
patterns.
There is also an applet you can play with that demonstrates the
photoelectric effect.
At the end of this presentation, you should be able to answer
questions like:
-What
is a photon?
-What
is the significance of the photoelectric effect?
-What
does particle-wave duality mean?
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