Lec 4 | MIT 5.112 Principles of Chemical Science, Fall 2005
Particle-Like Nature of Light View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/5-112F05 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at ...
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The following content is provided by MIT OpenCourseWare under a Creative Commons license. Additional information about our license and MIT OpenCourseWare in general is available at ocw.mit.edu. Where were we, last time? Last time, we said we were setting aside the problem of the structure of the atom. We were setting it aside because we were stuck, and what we had to do was to look at another area of discussion. And that is this wave-particle duality of light and matter, because it is that discussion that is going to give us the clues about how to proceed. We are putting aside the discussion of the structure of the atom all the way until next Wednesday, because next Monday, I was reminded, is a student holiday. [APPLAUSE] And so we started. We talked about the wave-like properties of light. We said t...
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The following content is provided by MIT OpenCourseWare under a Creative Commons license. Additional information about our license and MIT OpenCourseWare in general is available at ocw.mit.edu. Where were we, last time? Last time, we said we were setting aside the problem of the structure of the atom. We were setting it aside because we were stuck, and what we had to do was to look at another area of discussion. And that is this wave-particle duality of light and matter, because it is that discussion that is going to give us the clues about how to proceed. We are putting aside the discussion of the structure of the atom all the way until next Wednesday, because next Monday, I was reminded, is a student holiday. [APPLAUSE] And so we started. We talked about the wave-like properties of light. We said t...
