Today we finished looking at the properties of light and tried to fit those properties to a scientific model. We reviewed the properties that we had already learned (reflection, refraction, etc) and then talked about some other properties (absorption and heating, pressure, dispersion, etc.). We then tried to see if these properties could be explained by assuming light is made up of tiny hard particles called corpuscles. As it turns out, particles can explain some of the properties of light but not all of them. We will have to see if another model will work. This was all covered on slides 77-90 in the physics notes powerpoint.
We are going to have a quiz on the properties of reflection and refraction on Thursday Jan 8. Study all concepts related to those 2 properties.
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