WAVE THEORY Definition & Meaning

wave theory

Also called undulatory theory. Physics. the theory that light is transmitted as a wave, similar to oscillations in magnetic and electric fields. Compare corpuscular theory.
Historical Linguistics. a theory that accounts for shared features among languages or dialects by identifying these features as innovations that spread from their points of origin to the speech of contiguous areas.

wave theory

the theory proposed by Huygens that light is transmitted by waves
any theory that light or other radiation is transmitted as waves See electromagnetic wave

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First recorded in 1825–35

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The effect is of a droplet that appears to walk along a rippled surface in patterns that turn out to be in line with de Broglie's pilot wave theory.

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Isaac Newton concluded that light consists of particles in 1672; Christiaan Huygens developed his wave theory of light six years later.

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But not everyone in the mainstream media rode along with the red wave theory.

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But according to the wave theory of light, there is another way to get high-energy light: make it brighter.

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Rather more people, though, know that he had something to do with the wave theory of light.

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