In 1801,Thomas Young Performed a Crucial Experiment on the Nature

question 136

Multiple Choice

In 1801,Thomas Young performed a crucial experiment on the nature of light when he:

• A) demonstrated the wave nature of light by passing light through two slits and obtaining a pattern of bright and dark bands on a screen that he correctly interpreted as interference between the two light beams.
• B) proved mathematically that light could be described as oscillating electric and magnetic fields.
• C) showed that a prism through which light passed added a spectrum of colors to the light.
• D) 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.

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