* LIGHT WAVES ** OBJECITVES ** CONTENT The nature of light is that it has two sources, artificial and natural, examples of natural light emitters are the sun and some insects, for the artificial lights, led lights, candles, flashlights, etc. The speed of light is 300 m/s, light is an electronmagnetic wave. There are alot of parts in the EMR, they are mentioned below, though they seem different, they are all travelling on the same speed *** LOW ENERGY 1. Radio Waves These usually used for Radios, TV, GPS (Global Positioning System), MRI (Magnetic Resonnance imaging) 2. Microwaves Used for heating, RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) communication and TELE communications 3. Infrared Communication, Health Care, Detect and Study Pollution, Infrared sensors used to study pollution, fire, deforestation, volcanoes, auroras, snow, etc. 4. Visible In colors, photosynthesis, Lasers (Light Amplification by stimullated Emission of Radiation)), Endoscopy *** HIGH ENERGY 5. UV Detect Forgery, Sterilize medical equipment, enables your body to produce vitamin D, and treat jaundice for newborns 6. X-Rays Used to detect dangerous thiings, radiation therapy, screening in ports, industrial photography. 7. Gamma Used for Nuclear *** THEORIES Christian Huygens said that light behaves like a wave James Clek Maxwell said that light is the small part of the electromagnetic spectrum which affects our vision Max Planck and Albert Einstein said that light is radiated in discrete packets or bundles of energy called photons, which also exhibit wave characteristics (this is also known as the Quantum Theory)