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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Light quanta, wavelengths and energy.
« on: 13/12/2013 17:37:08 »
Hi, I am just reading about how Plancks use of light quanta for convenience, and then Einsteins proof that they existed gave birth to quantum mechanics. It's interesting to me how the discrete packets carry different amounts of energy based on frequency, but it left me gasping for more. Are photons all the same physical size, and therefore carry the energy within each peak? Do they differ in size and each carry the same number of waves, and the energy is in the frequency itself? Is there a minimum and maximum frequency within the EM spectrum?
Thanks for taking the time to read this, hopefully they are not daft questions
Thanks for taking the time to read this, hopefully they are not daft questions