In the 1860s, James Clerk Maxwell Carried Out Important Investigations

question 260

Multiple Choice

In the 1860s, James Clerk Maxwell carried out important investigations on the nature of light when he

• A) demonstrated the wave nature of light by passing light through two slits and obtained a pattern of bright and dark bands on a screen that he correctly interpreted as interference between the two light beams.
• B) demonstrated that white light was made up of colors that could be split by a prism and that these colors were not produced by the glass through which the light passed.
• C) proved mathematically that light could be described by oscillating electric and magnetic fields.
• D) showed that a prism through which light passed added a spectrum of colors to the light.

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