The boy walked in the evening in the park with the flashlight with a power of 20 W . The flashlight bulb is monochromatic and emits photons with a wavelength 590 nm . When the boy came home, he took out a light bulb from the flashlight, connected it to the battery, and placed it in front of a sheet of paper with the dimensions 20cm×30cm at a distance of 1.2 m from it. How many photons per second fall on a piece of paper?
Atomic Spectra
According to the Bohr model of an atom, the electron in an atom moves around a nucleus in fixed orbits with specific energies known as energy levels. The orbital energies are quantized. The electrons remain in these energy levels until they emit or absorb a photon of a particular wavelength, the quantum of energy. If the electron emits a photon, it then falls back to a lower energy level, and if it absorbs a photon, the electron rises to higher energy levels. The photons released or absorbed in these transitions of an electron are studied and analyzed on a screen as atomic spectra.
Ruby Lasers
Lasers are devices that emit light using atoms or molecules at a certain wavelength and amplify the light to produce a narrow beam of radiation. It works as per the principle of electromagnetic radiation. Their source of emission contains the same frequency and same phase. It was invented in the year 1960 by the great noble scientist, Theodore Maiman.
Balmer Series
The spectrum of frequency observed when electromagnetic radiation is emitted from an atom when it goes from higher energy state to lower state, is known as emission spectrum. This transition occurs when an excited electron moves from higher to lower state. It has many possible electron transitions and each transition has a specific energy difference.
Emission Spectrum
Every state of matter tries to be at minimum potential energy or it can be said that the atoms of element/ substance arrange themselves such that overall energy is minimum.
The boy walked in the evening in the park with the flashlight with a power of 20 W
. The flashlight bulb is monochromatic and emits photons with a wavelength 590 nm
. When the boy came home, he took out a light bulb from the flashlight, connected it to the battery, and placed it in front of a sheet of paper with the dimensions 20cm×30cm
at a distance of 1.2 m
from it. How many photons per second fall on a piece of paper?
In step 1, you determined the ratio A
between the area of a sheet of paper and the surface area of a sphere with a radius of 1.2 m
. In hint 5 of part A, you have determined how many photons per second are emitted by a flashlight bulb. To complete the final step, calculate, how many photons per second falls on a piece of paper.
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