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Title: Find an expression for the DeBroglie wavelength of a photon with energy E.?
Post by: smokinjoe531 on Nov 29, 2012
Find an expression for the DeBroglie wavelength of a photon with energy E.  Does it agree with the result you would obtain from the photoelectric effect?


Title: Find an expression for the DeBroglie wavelength of a photon with energy E.?
Post by: smokebomb13 on Nov 29, 2012
de Broglie wavelength = h/p

the momentum of a photon is p = E/c

therefore the de Broglie wavelength is lambda = h/(E/c) = h c/E