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the photon has got 0 rest mass .and plot mass means? not knowing..


mass of photon?

Photons have no mass.


How photon is an elementary particle despite having no mass?

The photon does have mass. You can easily solve for it.Energy of a photon is ( Planck's konstant times frequency).But kinetic energy of any moving object is also ( 1/2 m V2 ).For a photon, 'V' is 'c', so ( h f ) = (1/2 m c2) , and [ m = ( 2 x Planck's konstant x frequency) / c2 ] .Or, what is equivalent, [ m = ( 2 x Planck's konstant ) / (wavelength x c) ] .So, there's the mass of your photon, while it's moving at the speed of light ... which it always is.What it doesn't have is rest mass ... mass that it would have if it were just laying there on the floor.It can't have rest mass, because any rest mass becomes infinite when the object movesat the speed of light.


What is the mass of one photon?

mass of the proton is 0. Answer 2 But the question asked about photons, not protons. The mass of a photon is also 0, though the mass of a proton is not!


What is the smallest in mass?

A photon.


What subatomic particles have a mass of 0?

The photon. This refers to the "rest mass"; since the photon has energy, it also has an associated mass. But the "rest mass" or "invariant mass" is zero.


What is the mass of a photon in motion?

It's (double the photon's energy) divided by (the speed of light squared). The photon's energy depends on its frequency, and is (frequency) times (Planck's konstant).


Which is not the property of photon mass charge energy momentum?

A photon has zero electrical charge.


When can a substance's mass be 0?

Yes, a Photon's mass is theorized to be zero.


What is the mass of gamma in atomic mass units?

If you mean a gamma photon, it is mass-less.


Is it possible to attain light speed?

Only if you are a photon. In that case, you always move at the speed of light. If you're not a photon, and have any mass while you're sitting still, and are not moving at the speed of light right now, then you can never attain light speed.


What do you call a particle of light with zero mass which carries a quantum of energy?

I call it a 'photon'.By the way, the photon has zero rest mass, but when it travels at the speed of light ...which it always does ... it has some mass.