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881-02-04
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en
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Standard
Term:
photon
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the elementary quantity of energy of electromagnetic radiation. For electromagnetic energy of frequency
v
, the quantum energy is
hv
, where
h
is Planck's constant
NOTE – A photon is an elementary particle without a rest mass.
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1983-01
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the elementary quantity of energy of electromagnetic radiation. For electromagnetic energy of frequency
v
, the quantum energy is
hv
, where
h
is Planck's constant