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Question 33 • 26-27 LISD TX-Physics B-CR (rev. 5/25)

Which statement best describes the ideas of two scientists who studied properties of light?

Answer
A
Newton and Maxwell had similar ideas about light being made of particles.
B
Hertz extended Maxwell’s idea that light is produced by the interaction of electric and magnetic fields.
C
Young supported Newton’s idea of the wave theory of light after observing light spread out in all directions.
D
Huygens agreed with Maxwell that light has properties of both particles and waves.

Explanation

Maxwell predicted that changing electric and magnetic fields travel together as electromagnetic waves, and that visible light is one kind of electromagnetic wave. Hertz later produced and detected electromagnetic waves experimentally, supporting and extending Maxwell’s ideas. Newton is associated with a particle theory of light, while Young’s interference experiments supported the wave theory, so the other statements misrepresent those scientists.

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