Dot Physics

There are a couple of things I should probably not talk about. One of them is photons. But no matter what you think about photons you will probably agree that this is not a very good description of electromagnetic radiation. (from comos4kids.com)

Structure of Energy:All EM energy waves travel at the speed of light [...]

So back to the photon. In my original post I made the claim that the photoelectric effect is not a great experiment to show photons. Maybe that is not how it came off, but that is what I meant. The photoelectric effect can be explained quite well with the classical electromagnetic waves model and a quantum nature of matter. Of course there is a quantum nature to light as well.

In part I of this post, I struggled to show that a particle in an infinite well can only exist at certain energies. If you try to put a particle with more than one energy, the probability oscillates at a frequency (E2 – E1)/h. So, what is next? Well I think I [...]

One of the fundamental aspects of physics is the study of light and how that interacts with matter. I have been putting off this post – mainly because I am not a quantum mechanic (I am a classical mechanic). There are lots of things that could be done in this post, but I [...]