LIGHT: WAVE AND QUANTUM THEORIES

Duration: 13½min

Year Published: 1961

Format: 16mm

Color: Color & B&W

Sound: Sound

Description: Demonstrates the accepted theory of light as consisting of both a wave motion and of discrete bundles, or quanta, of energy. Performs Young's double-slit experiment to show the wave character of light. Shows in laboratory demonstrations and in animation the Compton effect and other major experiments associated with the present theory.

Complete Record: Source: Coronet Interest level: jh-sh Guide: Guide Price: b&w $75, color $137.50 Format: sd b&w or color Catalog numbers: LC card Fi A 61-838

Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)