LIGHT

Light is more than color, it’s an energy, which it travels at incredible speeds
throughout the universe. Light is a primary tool for perceiving the world and
communicating within it. Light from the sun warms the earth and drives global weather
patterns. Light transmits spatial and temporal information. Light is indispensable to life
on the planet and consequently affect people and other creature alike. Now, with this
essay, we will prove some thoughts and things of light that we can improve and apply in
general life.
There are two opinions about characteristics of light as a wave and light as a
particle. These opinions have their own excuse. Sir Isaac Newton said that light is a little
particle as know as corpuscles. If a light source transmitted light, then those particles
hit eyes and cause the impression of thes objects. In other side, Huygen said that light is
a wave, because the characteristics of the light same as the characteristics of sound
wave. The difference between light and sound are the wavelength and the frequency.
Then, Maxwell said that the light is actually an electromagnetic (EM) waves because the
velocity of EM wave same as the velocity of light (3 x 10-8 m/s). The EM wave made by
electric field that perpendicular with magnetic field (Giancoli, 2005).
Photons is a base particle which EM radiation base units, include radiowave,
infrared, visible light, ultraviolet (UV), X-ray, and Gamma ray. Photons included to
particle that be responsible as a base nature force and bring electromagnetic force.
Photons is light particles but have a characteristic like a wave (Halliday & Resnick,
2011). As we know, light divided as a visible and invisible light.
 Invisible light is a light that couldn’t caught by eyes. Application of invisible light
is infrared, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma ray.
 Visible light is a part of EM wave spectrum which can be detected by eyes.
Newton found that prism can unload and install back of white light. Newton then
divided color spectrum as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, and purple.
Visible light applied on using laser ray in fiber optic at telecommunication field.
Light usually can dispersed become some monochromatic colors after light
moves from the air through a different medium, so experiencing light refraction. White
light is one the colors that can be refracted into monochromatic colors, because white is
composed by many colors. The medium used to divide the color of white light is prism
(Halliday & Resnick, 2011). If white color through a prism or optical substance denser,
it will experience a change of light speed, that have consequently wavelength also
change which lead to the disintegration of many colors.
Light is nature’s way of transferring energy through space. Light travels very
rapidly, but it does have a finite velocity in vacuum. Light energy is an energy generated
or emitted from the light source. As we know, the sun is the source of illumination
greatest energy in the world. The light that comes from the process of thermonuclear
radiation. Thermonuclear fusion is a process when two atomic nuclei combine, forming
a larger nuclei and release energy. One application on daily life is solar radiation,
namely solar panels that convert solar energy to electricity (Young & Freedman, 2012).
As we explained above, light has a broad definition and theory that useful on our
general life. From that definition and theory, we know that light is a product of moving
electrons. Light is consist colors spectrum and also light is an energy. So on, we can
conclude that light has a lot of thoughts and things that we can improve and apply in our
life.
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Giancoli, DC. 2005. Physics: Principles with Application 6th Edition. USA: Pearson
Halliday & Resnick. 2011. Fundamentals of Physics 9th Edition. USA: John Wiley Sons &
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Young, HD, R A Freedman. 2012. University Physics with Modern Physics 13th Edition.
USA: Pearson