Wave and photon descriptions of light: historical highlights, epistemological aspects and teaching practices

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/37/5/055303zbMATH Open1349.81004OpenAlexW2487548733MaRDI QIDQ2835932FDOQ2835932

Authors: Biagio Buonaura, Giuseppe Giuliani 

Publication date: 30 November 2016

Published in: European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0807/37/5/055303

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zbMATH Keywords

Doppler effectinterferencespecial relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) History of quantum theory (81-03)

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• Photons. The history and mental models of light quanta

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