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What happens to a photon when it transfers its energy to an electron?

budsworth

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What happens to a photon when it transfers its energy to an electron?

Does the photon bounce off when it hits the electron?

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smithcherry

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11 years ago

so...transfer energy to electron will "kick" the electron to higher orbital. the photon does not bounce off, photon is basically light energy.

smithll1

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11 years ago

It gets absorbed by the electron, which becomes excited and jumps to a higher energy state. When the electron, on a whim, jumps back down to a lower energy state, it releases a photon, which may have a different wavelength from the photon that was absorbed.

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