WorksheetsNature and Identity of Light
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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
