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What is a photon?

What is a photon?

by | Jan 1, 2018 | Gr. 11-12 Chemistry, Gr. 11-12 Physics

A photon is a purely quantum mechanical object representing the smallest piece of energy (or quanta) for light. Every quantum particle is a packet of energy though, so how do we tell photons apart from electrons, quarks, and neutrinos? Click here to go the source for...
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