In what now seems like physics folklore, the young patent clerk Albert Einstein proposed that light behaves like a particle—known as a photon—and that each photon has an energy that depends on its frequency. More precisely, Einstein attributed an energy to each photon of light. This chapter focuses on the particle nature of light and the associated energy and momentum of the photons.
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Type Book ChapterPub Date 1/1/2006Stock # PB198X_23