Have you ever worn special glasses to view a 3-D movie? What does this situation have in common with solar panels or prisms that break up light into the colors of the rainbow? All of these situations involve light.
Glasses for viewing 3-D movies
Landscape lights and solar panels
Prisms that show the different colors of the rainbow
In this lesson, you will apply your knowledge of wave-particle duality of light to evaluate whether each of the situations is BEST described by the wave model or the particle model.
Question
Predict which of the three situations above is explained by the wave model of light.
The situations that are explained mostly by the wave model of light are the glasses for viewing 3-D movies and the prisms that bend light. The situation that is BEST described by the particle nature of light is the use of landscape lights or solar panels.
Reflection
Using what you learned in other lessons, why do you think landscape lights or solar panels show the particle nature of light?
