Question

What is the significance of the Taylor experiment?

Answer 1

Answer:

B. it showed that the wave nature of light is a probability statement of where photons are going to be

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

B. it showed that the wave nature of light is a probability statement of where photons are going to be

Explanation:

When the light propagates through a medium it is taken to act as a wave, it shows all the features of a wave such as reflection, refraction, diffraction.

• But when the light ray is incident on a surface generating an energy interaction with the particles of the matter on which it is incident then it is treated as matter. Light is made of particles called photons.

• The collision of photons with the surface electrons in some materials leads to the ejection of the valance electrons from the surface in excited state.

Energy of photon is given as:

$E=h.\nu$

where:

h = Planck's constant

$\nu=$ frequency of the wave