Optics
Optics is the area of physics that focuses on the study of the properties as well as the behavior of light. The advances in the field of quantum mechanics put an end to one of the confusing aspects of light. Quantum mechanics was able to prove that the reason why light can sometimes appear as a wave and sometimes appear as a particle is because … Keep Reading → it is, in fact, both. Because of the unique electromagnetic qualities of light sometimes we see a particle and sometimes we see a wave. Optics creates models that can explain the process of how light is formed. Geometric optics is a formula that describes light as a series of rays that will behave in predictable ways. It is used to describe how light will move and where it will go. Physical optics adds the concepts of interference, polarization and diffraction to explain the source of the light itself.
