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Visible Light (Commonly Referred To Simply As Light) Is

Visible light is electromagnetic radiation that has a wavelength between approximately 400-700 nanometers that is visible to the human eye and allows for sight. It travels at a constant speed of 299,792,458 meters per second in a vacuum. Visible light is emitted and absorbed in tiny packets called photons and exhibits properties of both waves and particles.

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Visible Light (Commonly Referred To Simply As Light) Is

Visible light is electromagnetic radiation that has a wavelength between approximately 400-700 nanometers that is visible to the human eye and allows for sight. It travels at a constant speed of 299,792,458 meters per second in a vacuum. Visible light is emitted and absorbed in tiny packets called photons and exhibits properties of both waves and particles.

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Visible light (commonly referred to simply as light) is electromagnetic radiation that is visible to [1] the human eye, and

is responsible for the sense of sight. Visible light is usually defined as having 9 a wavelength in the range of 400 nanometres (nm), or 40010 m, to 700 nanometres between [2][3] the infrared, with longer wavelengths and the ultraviolet, with shorter wavelengths. These numbers do not represent the absolute limits of human vision, but the approximate range within which most people can see reasonably well under most circumstances. Various sources define visible light as narrowly as [4][5] [6][7] 420 to 680 to as broadly as 380 to 800 nm. Under ideal laboratory conditions, people can see [8] infrared up to at least 1050 nm, children and young adults ultraviolet down to about 310 to [9][10][11] 313 nm. Primary properties of visible light are intensity, propagation direction, frequency or wavelength spectrum, and polarisation, while its speed in a vacuum, 299,792,458 meters per second, is one of the fundamental constants of nature. Visible light, as with all types of electromagnetic radiation (EMR), is [citation needed] experimentally found to always move at this speed in vacuum. In common with all types of EMR, visible light is emitted and absorbed in tiny "packets" called photons, and exhibits properties of both waves andparticles. This property is referred to as the waveparticle duality. The study of light, known as optics, is an important research area in modern physics. In physics, the term light sometimes refers to electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength, whether visible [12][13] or not. This article focuses on visible light. See the electromagnetic radiation article for the general term.

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