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How does the photoelectric effect demonstrate that light can behave like a particle aswell as like a wave?

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The photoelectric effect cannot demostrate that light can behave like a wave. It demostrates that light carries energy in quantas and that the packages of energy arrive in a kinetic manner proving that light behaves as a particle. The experiment that demostrates that light behaves like a particle as we as like a wave is the double-slit experiment mixed with the photoelectic particle.

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