Applied Physics (11th Edition)
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780134159386
Author: Dale Ewen, Neill Schurter, Erik Gundersen
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 20, Problem 4RQ
Light behaves
- a. as a massive particle.
- b. always as a wave.
- c. sometimes as a wave, sometimes as a particle.
- d. as none of the above.
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