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Light is described as having a dual wave-particle nature. Which piece of evidence provides support for the model of light as a particle?

Young’s double slit experiment showed that light waves show interference.

Light reflects when it hits a surface.

Light refracts when it moves from one medium to another.

Light does not need a medium to travel.

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Light does not need a medium to travel.

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Answer: Light reflects when it hits a surface.

Step-by-step explanation:

It is now clear that light behaves as a wave and as a particle. It should be noted that the first to propose the corpuscular theory of light was Issac Newton, while the wave theory was initially proposed by Christian Huygens, who was contemporaneous with Newton.

Now, focusing on the corpuscular theory, Newton proposed that light is composed of tiny massless particles, traveling in a straight line and at high speed. In addition, he used the reflection phenomenon of the of light to show that it behaved like particles that when hitting a mirror were reflected by a perfectly elastic collision.

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