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A certain shade of blue has a frequency of 7.15 × 1014 hz. what is the energy of exactly one photon of this light?

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The energy carried by a single photon of frequency f is given by:

E=hf
where
h=6.6 \cdot 10^(-34) m^2 kg s^(-1) is the Planck constant. In our problem, the frequency of the photon is
f=7.15 \cdot 10^(14)Hz, and by using these numbers we can find the energy of the photon:

E=(6.6\cdot 10^(-34)m^2 kg s^(-1))(7.15 \cdot 10^(14)Hz)=4.7 \cdot 10^(-19)J
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