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From: markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier)
Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Radio Wavicles
Summary: Planck or someone like him
Message-ID: <1447@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 88 23:51:22 GMT
References: <805@ns.UUCP>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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In article <805@ns.UUCP>, logajan@ns.UUCP (John Logajan x3118) writes:
| We generally associate radio transmission with wave properties.  But we
| also know that such emissions have photonic-particle like properties.
| 
| The point I have trouble seeing is how to explain continuous frequency
| change in terms of discrete photons.  Frequency shifting is easy to
| visualise from a waveform point of view -- but in a particle point of
| view, isn't one forced to make the assumption that frequency shifting
| can only occur in quantum steps -- that there is no such thing as a
| continuously smooth frequency change.
| 
| Perhaps I should have used the term "discrete steps" rather than quantum
| steps, since I didn't mean to imply that each step was constrained to be
| any specific "leap" from the previous.

Photon energy (in Joules) = 6.6256e-34 (Planck's Constant)  * frequency (hz)

Pretty small steps.


Mark Zenier	uunet!pilchuck!ssc!markz		
"He did decide, though, that with more time and a great deal of mental effort,
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