In 1801, Thomas Young Performed a Crucial Experiment on the Nature

Multiple Choice

In 1801, Thomas Young performed a crucial experiment on the nature of light when he

A) demonstrated the wave nature of light by passing light through two slits and obtained a pattern of bright and dark bands on a screen that he correctly interpreted as interference between the two light beams.
B) proved mathematically that light could be described by oscillating electric and magnetic fields.
C) showed that a prism through which light passed added a spectrum of colors to the light.
D) demonstrated that white light was made up of colors that could be split by a prism and that these colors were not produced by the glass through which the light passed.