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    Waves and optics explores how light operates and interacts with matter. It examines waves which transfer energy through particle vibrations. Key concepts include the wave-particle duality of light and experiments showing light behaving as both waves and particles.

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    Waves and optics explores how light operates and interacts with matter. It examines waves which transfer energy through particle vibrations. Key concepts include the wave-particle duality of light and experiments showing light behaving as both waves and particles.

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    Alig Wilfredo Jr.

    R BSEd SCIE 2-b

    Waves and optics

    Waves and optics is a fascinating field of science that is responsible in laying the
    fundamental concepts about how lights operate and how it interacts in very thing that is
    made up of matter, in other words everything around us. wave and optics explore and
    understand energy and matters, in waves we will understand that waves caries energy.
    The energy is transferred in waves through vibrations of particles this means that when
    we speak we are producing waves and those waves have different parts such as the crest
    which is the highest point of Wave, through the lowest region of the wave, wavelength
    which is the distance between two adjacent through or crest, which is basically the
    distance between the highest point of the wave and or the distance between the lowest
    point of the wave to be precise, then there’s amplitude the maximum displacement of a
    vibrating particle on either side of normal position when the wave passes.
    In other words, when explaining the amplitude of the wave imagine a line in the middle,
    that is the resting place of the wave now here comes the wave which moves in wave like
    motion or up and down motion. The amplitude is the height or depth of that wave from
    the lines or the resting point of a wave, that is amplitude. Then there is frequency which
    is the number of waves that passes a particular point every one second, if the amount of
    waves that passes in that particular point in a second is fast then the frequency of that
    wave is high and if its slower then its low frequency. An example of high and low
    frequency in terms of sound is a beat of a drum compared to a sound of xylophone, the
    lower the tune or sound of an object the slower the frequency of its wave and the higher
    the pitch of an object is the faster the frequency of that wave. Now in the other hand
    optics is the branch of physics that deals with the behavior of light and its interaction
    with matter.
    One of the key concepts in optics is the wave-particle duality of light. Which stated that
    light behaves in both waves and particles. Wave is an energy and does not have mass
    while particle is part of a matter which then can be seen or part of any tangible things in
    this world, and it has mass well except photons which is an electric fields traveling
    through spaces, it has no charge, no resting mass and travels at the speed of light, but
    photons is a particle. It may seem confusing because particle is a smallest part of matter
    but photons is not considered as matter because it doesn’t have mass but it is a particle
    though. This characteristics of photons affects the duality of light in which wave and
    optics will discuss.
    There was an experiment called the double slit experiment by Thomas Young in which
    he shines a light on to a metal sheet with two small slits the light creates an interference
    pattern on the wall thus proving that light travels as a wave and not a particle, this
    oppose Einstein’s view in light in which he says that light is a particle.

    Then there was an another experiment where photons are shoot one at a time, and again
    it creates an interference but when they put a detector to observes the photons behavior,
    the photons behave like a particle again. this behaviors of photons baffled the scientists
    thus concluding that light behaves as both waves and particles. In waves and optics, the
    students will learn about various phenomena such as polarization, diffraction,
    interference and other occurrences.

    References:
    https://byjus.com/jee/wave-optics/
    https://www.discovery.com/science/Double-Slit-Experiment
    https://study.com/academy/lesson/waves-components-types-parameters.html

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