Chemistry and Our Universe: How It All Works

Chemistry and Our Universe: How It All Works

Wave Nature of Light (1x3)


: 23, 2016

Light interacts with matter in crucial ways. In the first of two lectures on the nature of light, follow the debate over whether light is a wave or a particle, starting in antiquity. See how the wave theory appeared to triumph in the 19th century and led to the discovery of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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