Discover the Top 10 Effects of Light: A Comprehensive Guide

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The discussion centers on identifying various effects of light, emphasizing its role beyond being mere electromagnetic radiation. Participants highlight practical applications of light, such as aiding in navigation, influencing animal behavior, and enhancing visibility. Specific examples include how light attracts hummingbirds to flowers, helps hawks locate prey, and assists drivers in avoiding obstacles at night. The conversation also touches on the use of light for signaling in emergency situations. Overall, the thread illustrates the diverse and significant impacts of light in everyday life and nature.
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Can anybody name 10 effects of light ??
 
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What do you mean? It's just electromagnetic radiation. Special and General Relativity don't regard light as anything special, just as something that has the same velocity in all inertial reference frames, which other thing do, too.
 
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Patrick123456 said:
Can anybody name 10 effects of light ??

are you saying that you personally are able to come up with ZERO effects of light?
 
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If this is a homework question please see the appropriate subforum.
 
1. Light effects which color flower a hummingbird will visit for nectar.
2. Light helps me avoid walking into walls by illuminating them.
3. Light aids circling hawks discover small prey for lunch.
4. Light illuminates the highway so while driving we can avoid obstacles at night.
5. Light causes sunflowers to follow the sun daily.
6. When an anti-submarine helicopter hovering fifty feet above the ocean surface with its sonar unit dipped to a search depth experiences a double engine failure and falls into the sea, the surviving aviators, while bobbing around in their inflatable liferaft can use their survival signal mirrors to shine sunlight into a eyes of the pilot of a distant search aircraft and thereby get rescued.
Sorry, can't think of any more.
 
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