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17th Century 1604 - Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler describes how the eye focuses light and specifies the
laws of rectilinear propagation of light. The Rectilinear Propagation
of Light describes that Light travels in a Straight Line.

1668 -Sir Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton expands the theory originally set forward by Pierre


Gassendi that light is made up of small discrete particles called
‘corpuscles’ to claim that light is made up of different parts.

1678 - Christiaan Huygens

Light is a wave or wavefront. He utilized this theory of light as a wave to


explain light reflection and refraction phenomenon. Huygens' theory that
light is a wave became the mainstream scientific concept.

18th – 19th Century Thomas Young - Proof of the wave theory of light
In a shift of research from vision (trichromatic color vision and eye
adjustment mechanism) to optics, in 1807 he showed that when light
coming from a point light source is shined onto two pinholes, interference
fringes can be observed on a screen an appropriate distance away (Young’s
Experiment) and advocated his theory that light behaves like a wave. In the
field of elastic body mechanics, his name still remains as the fundamental
constant Young’s Modulus, amongst other achievements he was first to use
the term energy and introduced that concept.

19th Century 1899 – Planck’s Theory

Max Planck models black body radiation by assuming that the


exchange of energy between light and matter only occurs in
discrete amounts he called quanta.

20th – 21st Century Interpretation of the photoelectric effect

Albert Einstein publishes a mathematical description of the


photoelectric effect. This establishes that light consists of
particles or ‘discrete quanta’. These particles later became
known as photons.
-1922 – First 3D movies
William Friese-Greene files -2010 – 3D televisions
a patent for a 3D movie The first full 3D TVs
process in the late 1890s, with use of shutter
Louis Ducos du Hauron technology become
invents red and blue glasses available.
for 3D in 1915, and the first
public 3D movie is screened
in 1922.

GROUP LION

Leader: Edmon Pantaleon


Members:
Carl Yuri C. Abasula
Christine Jane Gonzales
Claire Perfenian
Enzo Espiritu
Lyan Agulo
Marwin Kenneth Failma Petario
Raphael Simagala
Uno Emmanuel Vallejo

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