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English physicist who wrote the book Optiks, in which he proposed the particle theory of light |
Isaac Newton |
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Dutch physicist who proposed the wave theory of light |
Christian Huygens |
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Scottish physicist who discovered that light consists of electromagnetic waves |
James Clerk Maxwell |
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German physicist who demonstrated the existence or radio waves |
Heinrich Hertz |
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The additive primary colors of light are red, green, and ____. |
Blue |
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A dual wave that consists of an electric field and a magnetic field oscillating together is an ____ wave. |
Electromagnetic |
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A mixture of all the colors of light is perceived by our eyes as _____. |
White |
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Electromagnetic waves that our eyes can perceive are called ____. |
Visible light |
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Light is said to consist of tiny bundles or "packets" of energy called ____. |
Photons |
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The theory that light has a dual nature, with characteristics of both particles and waves, is the _____ theory of light. |
Quantum |
