Is light a particle or a wave? - Colm Kelleher
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Can we accurately describe light as exclusively a wave or just a particle? Are the two mutually exclusive? In this third part of his series on light and color, Colm Kelleher discusses wave-particle duality and its relationship to how we see light and, therefore, color.
Explain why light is both a wave and a particle. Give one example why is behaves like a wave and then why it behaves like a particle.
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- Educator Colm Kelleher
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