Properties of Light | Introduction
Introduction
Scholars wondered about the properties of light as early as 600 B.C. in Miletus, which was part of the Greek empire. We now know that lightA form of energy that travels in waves. is a form of energy that travels through the universe in waves. All light energy exists in an electromagnetic spectrumThe complete array of electromagnetic radiation, including radio waves (at the longest-wavelength end), microwaves, infrared radiation, visible light, ultraviolet radiation, X rays, and gamma rays (at the shortest-wavelength end).. The visible spectrum,The range of individual wavelengths of radiation visible to the human eye when white light is broken into its component colors as it passes through a prism or by some other means. what we see as light, is part of the electromagnetic spectrum.