>> Wave Character Many of the things that light does are only explained sufficiently by thinking of light as a wave. Refraction and diffraction are two examples. Light refracts when it travels from one medium to another, because waves travel at different speeds through different media. In a similar way, light diffracts when it travels between or around objects, because obstacles make the light waves bend. So, obviously we\'re not wrong about light behaving like a wave. We even use the wave diffraction of light by reading interference patterns in X-ray crystallography. >> Particle Behaviour photoelectric effect, which describes the way electrons are excited and emitted from matter when they absorb the energy from light. In 1887, Heinrich Hertz observed that a charged object would create a bigger, faster spark if it was treated with ultraviolet light because the light was actually exciting the electrons. Further studies by other scientists showed that electrons really could be knocked out of a metal in response to a beam of light. For a while, scientists thought that the electrons were just absorbing the energy in the light wave, and then using that energy to jump out of the metal. The more energy the electrons could absorb, the more energy they could use to jump out. A photon is a nearly massless particle carrying a small amount of energy. We use photons to quantify, or measure the amount of, the energy in light and other electromagnetic waves. Each photon can excite only one electron at a time. When the intensity of light is increased, then the number of photons is increased, so a higher number of electrons are knocked loose from the metal. The energy of electrons does not change because the energy of each photon is still the same. Solution >> Wave Character Many of the things that light does are only explained sufficiently by thinking of light as a wave. Refraction and diffraction are two examples. Light refracts when it travels from one medium to another, because waves travel at different speeds through different media. In a similar way, light diffracts when it travels between or around objects, because obstacles make the light waves bend. So, obviously we\'re not wrong about light behaving like a wave. We even use the wave diffraction of light by reading interference patterns in X-ray crystallography. >> Particle Behaviour photoelectric effect, which describes the way electrons are excited and emitted from matter when they absorb the energy from light. In 1887, Heinrich Hertz observed that a charged object would create a bigger, faster spark if it was treated with ultraviolet light because the light was actually exciting the electrons. Further studies by other scientists showed that electrons really could be knocked out of a metal in response to a beam of light. For a while, scientists thought that the electrons were just absorbing the energy in the light wave, and then using that energy to jump out of the metal. The more energy the electr.