Colors and Photons

Storyboard

Light, in its corpuscular picture, is described by introducing a particle that we call the photon.

Its color is a reflection of its energy being the frequency of this directly proportional to this.

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The spectre

Definition

As the angle of refraction depends on the frequency or wavelength of light in glass, a prism can be used to decompose light into its different colors.

This results in what we call the spectrum of light.

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Colors and Photons

Description

Light, in its corpuscular picture, is described by introducing a particle that we call the photon. Its color is a reflection of its energy being the frequency of this directly proportional to this.

Variables

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$\epsilon$
e
Photon energy
J
$\nu$
nu
Photon frequency
Hz
$h$
h
Planck constant
Js

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Examples

As the angle of refraction depends on the frequency or wavelength of light in glass, a prism can be used to decompose light into its different colors.

This results in what we call the spectrum of light.

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The color of light is associated with its the photon frequency ($\nu$), and there is a direct relationship between this frequency and the photon energy ($\epsilon$):

$ \epsilon = h \nu $



where the planck constant ($h$) has a value of $6.62\times 10^{-34} , \text{Js}$.

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