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What is the wave-number of a photon?
The wave number of a photon is the spatial frequency of the photon's electromagnetic wave. It is defined as the reciprocal of the wavelength of the photon, typically measured in units of inverse meters. As the wave number increases, the wavelength decreases, and vice versa.
What is the name for a particle of em radiation?
Photon - you can think of it as a bundle of waves
What does the wavelength of an EM wave tell about its energy?
The shorter the wavelength of a wave, the higher its energy.
What is the distance between the crest of one photon wave and the next is called?
The distance between the crest of one photon wave and the next is called the wavelength. It is a measure of the spatial extent of the wave and determines the color and energy of the photon.
Is the frequency of a wave related to the energy of the photon?
Yes, the frequency of a wave is directly proportional to the energy of a photon. This relationship is described by the equation E = hf, where E is the energy of the photon, h is Planck's constant, and f is the frequency of the wave.
Why light posses dual nature?
light travel as a wave but it carries photon which is consider to be a particle.so photon done function as a particle and wave motion made effect as wave.
Can you change the frequency of em wave?
Once the wave has left the source that generated it, the frequency can't be changed.If you happen to be moving toward or away from the source at a high enoughspeed, then the frequency of the radiation may appear to you to be changed.But it's not.
What is a packet of energy traveling in a wave?
Photon
Are sound waves in solar energy?
No, sound wave is translating wave of the matter. The solar energy is the wave carried by photon which is an energy (non-matter). There is no way a sound wave would be carried in the stream of photon.
Photon depends on what?
Photons are elementary particles that exhibit wave-particle duality and are the fundamental units of light. They do not depend on anything for their existence but are influenced by the electromagnetic forces in their interactions with matter.
How does a charged particle produce an em wave?
A charged particle produces an electromagnetic wave by accelerating back and forth. As it moves, the changing electric field generated produces a changing magnetic field, and vice versa. These changing fields propagate through space together, creating the electromagnetic wave.
How can an atom of size 1angstrom can absorb a photon of 5000 wavelength?
I presume you asking, "How can an atom of size about 1 angstrom absorb a photon whose wavelength is 5000 angstroms? Wouldn't the photon be too large for that atom?" The paradox is resolved in this way: the instant you start to discuss electro-magnetic radiation as a photon instead of a transverse electro-magnetic wave, then you negate the wave-length aspect of the light. Instead, you view light as a collection of photons -- particles whose "size" (if that word has meaning) is point-like -- with a specific energy instead of specific wavelength. A photon is NOT a snake-like wave, vibrating like a rubber band, with a length at least that of its wave-length, as it moves through a medium. A photon is a point particle with a specific energy. You can describe light as a EM wave with a wave-length OR as a collection of point particles. You can NOT do both at the same time. Light exhibits the characteristics of one OR the other, but NEVER both.
