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What is Light?

Wave Properties of Light

Quantum Properties of Light

Lasers

Holography

Incandescence

Luminescence

Different Types of Waves

Electromagnetic Waves

         

         Electromagnetic Waves      

     The waves that accompany light are made up of vibrating, electric, and magnetic fields.  These force fields, which surround these charged particles, influence other charged particles in the parameter. The electric and magnetic fields change the strength and the direction of these charged particles. The directions may be right angled or perpendicular to each other (in the plane).  The electromagnetic wave formed by these fields travels in a perpendicular direction to the field’s strength, which comes out the plane.

            Since electronic magnetic waves are transverse, that is if the vibration that creates them as perpendicular to the direction in which they travel. They are very similar to waves except that appear to be able to travel without any substance to travel through. One explanation for this strange behavior is that there is matter in space, which we have not detected yet but that substance is mass less. The waves that come from the natural sources of light are irregular, because they have different colors in them and different frequencies for each of the colors. Those different frequencies are mixed to form an irregular frequency.

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