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"Can we consider light wave as a single frequency wave? Either Yes or No, explain the reason of your answer. "

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Well, yes.

We can have an isolated light wave that is defined by only one frequency (and one wavelenght). But this is not a really common situation, most of the light that we can see in nature, is actually a composition of different waves with different frequencies.

Even if we have, for example, a red laser, the actual frequency of the light that comes from the laser may be in a range of frequencies, so the actual wave is a composition of different waves with really close frequencies.

An example of a light wave defined by only one frequency can be, for example, the photon that comes out of a change in energy of an electron.

Here we have a single photon, with a single frequency, that is modeled as a single frequency wave.

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