Around 1670,Isaac Newton Performed a Crucial Experiment on the Nature

question 102

Multiple Choice

Around 1670,Isaac Newton performed a crucial experiment on the nature of light when he

• A) showed the wave nature of light by passing light through two slits and obtaining a pattern of bright interference bands on a screen.
• B) showed that light that passes through a prism has a spectrum of colors added to it by the prism.
• C) proved mathematically that light can be described by oscillating electric and magnetic fields.
• D) demonstrated that the colors that make up white light are intrinsic,not produced by the glass through which the light passes.

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