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What happens to photons if you just click a flashlight on and off once do photons decay or travel indefinitely?
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∙ 13y ago
If they have room to travel (e.g., you shine the flashlight towards the sky), they can travel on indefinitely.
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How do photons travel outward from a light bulb?
Photons travel outward from a light bulb in all directions.
What is the Difference between electrons and photons?
Photons have no charge, no rest mass and travel at the speed of light throuh a vacuum. Electrons have a charge of -1, have rest mass and are part of atoms.
What type of energy is useful in light?
Light is energy. Light is made of massless particles called photons that travel at the speed of light. Photons at a given frequency carry energy equal to the Planck constant times the photon's frequency.
What is the same for all photon traveling through a vacuum?
Speed. All photons traveling through a vacuum travel at the speed of light.
When light photons are considered to be particles what kind of path do they usually travel?
As particles photons travel in a straight line unless they are diverted by reflection, refraction, or a magnetic or gravitational field. Note that when it comes to gravity it can also be represented that the light continues in a straight line - but the space it travels through is curved so its path appears curved to the outside observer.
If you just click a flashlight on and off once do photons decay or travel indefinitly?
The light leaving a flashlight when it is turned on and then off will tend to move in a straight line. The problem is that there is air that the light will have to move through. The air will scatter or even absorb the photons. Eventually all the photons will be scattered and absorbed. If the experiment was conducted in outer space, the photons would travel a great distance as there is little in the way of particles to scatter the photons. Here on earth, the atmosphere would absorb the energy as there is relatively little of it released from the flashlight.
Do ultraviolet photons travel at with a greather speed than yellow photons?
No. All photons travel at the speed of light.
How do photons travel from a light bulb?
Photons travel outward from a light bulb in all directions.
Photons travel outward from a light source in?
the photons travel outward from a light source in all directions.
How do photons travel outward from a light bulb?
Photons travel outward from a light bulb in all directions.
Photons travel outward from a light bulb in?
Photons travel outward from a light bulb in all directions
Photons in sun travel is a straight path on the way?
Photons do travel in a straight path. To a person observing the photons though they will appear to be curved because of the gravitational field.
Do photons have weight?
No, photons do not have weight. Photons are particles, made pure out of energy, which travel at the speed of sound.
Can you pack a flashlight in a suitcase for air travel?
Yes
Can photons be accelerated?
No photons cannot be accelarated as they are already traveling at the speed of light.
Do photons travel in a straight line?
Yes, they do. But they sometimes travel a straight line through bent space.
How do you travel in the speed of light?
You don't. The only objects that can travel at the speed of light are those that ONLY travel at that speed, like photons or gravitons.
