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11 years ago
What's the difference between frequency and luminosity if frequency is indicative of energy?
What's the difference between frequency and energy?
What has energy that doesn't exhibit wave like properties?
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11 years ago
The difference between frequency and luminosity is based on what you mean by energy.  For light, the frequency defines the energy per photon; the luminosity is the total energy emitted (which then depends on the energy per photon multiplied by the number of photons emitted).
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