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Which light packs the highest energy per photon? 1. infrared 2. red 3. blue 4. ultraviolet 5. green?

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A single photon carries an energy equal to

E=hf
where h is the Planck's constant and f is the frequency of the photon.
This means that the higher the frequency of the light, the higher the energy. Among the 5 different options mentioned by the problem, the light with highest frequency is ultraviolet, which has frequencies in the range [3-30] PHz, while visible light (red, blue, green) and infrared have lower frequency, so ultraviolet light has the highest energy per photon.
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