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What is the term used by Newton to describe the particles of light?
balls
photons
corpuscles
rays
Why do some scientists believe that light is a wave?
Because light exhibits properties like interference and diffraction, which only happen in waves
Because light is not a particle
Because light need medium to travel
Because light transfers energy from one point to another
In a plane mirror, how does the reflected image appear?
Slightly out of focus
Closer than the actual object
Upright and the same size as the object
Upside down and much smaller than the object
If a man stands 4 feet in front of a plane mirror, how far away is the man’s image from the mirror?
Nearer than the man from the mirror
Twice as far as the man from the mirror
Three times as far as the man from the mirror
The same distance as the man from the mirror
He proposed that light has dual nature. It can behave both as a particle and a wave.
Isaac Newton
Christian Huygens
Louis de Broglie
Thomas Young
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