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Light Waves

Light is a form of energy that travels as both waves and particles, part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and can move through a vacuum. It can exhibit properties such as transmission, scattering, and refraction when interacting with different materials, categorized into natural and artificial sources. The speed of light varies with the density of the medium it travels through, being fastest in air.

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Light Waves

Light is a form of energy that travels as both waves and particles, part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and can move through a vacuum. It can exhibit properties such as transmission, scattering, and refraction when interacting with different materials, categorized into natural and artificial sources. The speed of light varies with the density of the medium it travels through, being fastest in air.

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Light Waves

What is light?
Light is a form of energy that travels both as waves
and particles.
Light is a part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Light Waves
• Light displays properties of a for example light leaving air
transverse wave as it travels. and entering glass some
• Light also displays particle bending of the ray is
like properties as it travels in observed.
straight lines just like rays.
• Light does not need a
medium like air or glass to
travel as light can travel
through a vacuum unlike
sound.
• When light leaves one
medium and enters another
Light Waves
The diagram below shows the experimental set-up commonly used to demonstrate
that light travels in straight lines. If one of the cardboards is shifted slightly so
that the holes are no longer in line, the eye will not be able to see the lighted bulb
Light Waves
• The transmission of light occurs when light hits an object that is
transparent or translucent and light can penetrate the material to
travel all the way through. When light transmission happens, it can
be scattered or refracted.
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Light waves
• Most transparent materials allow light to pass through
with minimal scattering, while translucent materials
scatter light significantly as it passes through.
• The two types of light sources are natural sources and
artificial sources.
Light Waves
• Natural light comes from natural sources that exist without
human intervention examples of such include the sun, stars,
lightning, jelly fishes & fireflies.

• Artificial light come from sources that are human inventions


examples of such include light bulbs, fluorescent lights, LED’s
(Light-emitting diode), gas lamps, candles, flashlights, neon
lights, sodium lamps.
• Note that since these objects give out light of their own they
are said to be “luminous”. Luminous objects can be both natural
and artificial.
• Living things that emit light are called bioluminescence.
• Non-luminous objects
Light Waves
• The speed of light in air is the fastest speed possible known to
humans.

• If you notice the more dense the object becomes the slower
the speed also.

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