Nature and Identity of Light

Which of the following is the assumption of the Ancient Greeks on the nature and identity of light?

• Light consists of tiny particles.

• Light is made up of particles that travels through

  space on a straight line.

• Light is made up of waves similar to that of water waves.

• Light is propagated in space as electromagnetic waves.

Which of the following is Sir Isaac Newton’s theory that explains light as a particle?

• Electromagnetic Wave Theory

• Quantum Theory

• Wave Theory

• Corpuscular Theory

Who is the proponent of the wave theory of light?

• Albert Einstein

• Christian Huygens

• James

  Clerk Maxwell

• Sir Isaac Newton

Which of the following explains how light, like sunlight, traveled to the earth through a vacuum or space?

• Electromagnetic Wave Theory

• Quantum Theory

• Wave Theory

• Corpuscular Theory

Who performed an experiment to show the interference pattern of light?

• Michael Faraday

• Thomas Young

• James Clerk Maxwell

• Max Planck

Quantum theory assumes that light is radiated in discrete packets or bundles of energy called __________.

• electrons

• neutrons

• photons

• protons

Who proposed the quantum theory of light in 1900?

• Heinrich Hertz

• Max Planck

• Albert Einstein

• James Clerk Maxwell

Based on the scientists’ investigations of the different behaviors of light, it is now considered that light has __________ nature or identity.

• wave

• particle

• corpuscles

• wave and particle

Who confirmed Maxwell’s theory by showing the waves existed and had all the properties of light waves?

• Herman Von Helmholtz

• Heinrich Hertz

• Thomas Young

• Michael Faraday

Who made the advancement on the quantum theory of light in 1905?

• Heinrich Hertz

• Max Planck

• Albert Einstein

• James Clerk Maxwell