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Light, Magnetism, and Electricity examines the historical debate over whether light behaves as a wave or a particle. Beginning with Newtonian concepts, it follows how the particle view dominated the eighteenth century, the wave view prevailed in the nineteenth, and ultimately the two concepts merged into a single theory in the twentieth age. The book presents the scientific arguments and experiments that shaped this evolution, making abstract physics accessible to general readers.
First publish date: 1966
Genre: Science/Physics
Authors: Isaac Asimov
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