Is it electrons? Protons? Everything has atom right? EVERYTHING! So what part of atom is photon? For example, gamma ray given off from a radioactive material, a photon is given off, well what part of the atom is given off?
2006-11-30 02:44:10 · 8 answers · asked by jennifer g 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
A photon is a quantum (pakage) of energy. if you look at a representation of the electromagnetic spectrum, you will see the wave function of photons varies from infra red to ultra violet.
A gamma ray is a very powerfull photon, it carries a lot of energy, so much it just goes "right trough" things.
Gamma rays are not matter but a "pack" or quantity of energy, inside the atom. When an atom is split, energy is released in the form of gamma ray.
2006-11-30 04:15:01 · answer #1 · answered by Yahoo! 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Electron, a type of elementary particle that, along with protons and neutrons, makes up atoms and molecules. Electrons play a role in a wide variety of phenomena. The flow of an electric current in a metallic conductor is caused by the drifting of free electrons in the conductor. Heat conduction in a metal is also primarily a phenomenon of electron activity. In vacuum tubes a heated cathode emits a stream of electrons that can be used to amplify or rectify an electric current (see Rectification). If such a stream is focused into a well-defined beam, it is called a cathode-ray beam (see Cathode Ray Tube). Cathode rays directed against suitable targets produce X-rays; directed against the fluorescent screen of a television tube, they produce visible images. The negatively charged beta particles emitted by some radioactive substances are electrons.
Photon, small unit of energy of light or other electromagnetic radiation. Max Planck and Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery of that light which in many situations behaves as waves and sometimes behaves as if it were made up of a stream of small quantities, or quanta, of energy. The energy, E, of a photon is calculated using the equation E = hu, where h is a universal constant (Planck's constant) and u is the frequency (number of vibrations per second) of the light.
2006-11-30 12:40:20 · answer #2 · answered by _PeTaL_D`oR_ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The photon is not intrinsecally a part of the atom. A photon is a light quantum that is generated when an electron jumps from a higher energy level to a lower energy level inside the orbitals of an atom.
The resulting loss of energy is emitted as a quantum of light that we called "photon".
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2006-11-30 10:48:38 · answer #3 · answered by CHESSLARUS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In modern physics, the photon is the elementary particle responsible for electromagnetic phenomena. It mediates electromagnetic interactions and makes up all forms of light. The photon has zero invariant mass and travels at the constant speed c, the speed of light in empty space. However, in the presence of matter, a photon can be slowed or even absorbed, transferring energy and momentum proportional to its frequency. Like all quanta, the photon has both wave and particle properties; it exhibits wave–particle duality.
2006-11-30 10:50:50 · answer #4 · answered by Ganymede 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Photon are particles with rest mass zero. They carry energy with them and also called as energy packets. Their energy is given by E=hv, where E is energy of photon, h is planck's constant and v is frequency.
2006-11-30 11:01:44 · answer #5 · answered by azeempk06 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A photon is a representation of light as a particle instead of a wave.
2006-11-30 10:45:47 · answer #6 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-11-30 14:02:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-11-30 10:46:30 · answer #8 · answered by Candie gurl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋