Quantisation of energy
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Energy is emitted or absorbed in discrete quanta, with energy E = hf, which suppresses high-frequency emission and matches the observed black-body spectrum.
Energy can only be transferred in whole multiples of hf.
Topics that use Quantisation of energy
- The discovery of photoelectricity (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- Photons (OCR A-Level)
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- Photon energy and frequency
- Planck constant
- Electronvolt
- Experimental uncertainty and evaluation
- Intensity
- Limitations of classical wave theory
- Linearising data using 1/λ
- Photoelectric effect
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