PROBLEMS

[list=1][*]What is a field in the context of QFT?[/*][*]What does it mean to say that something is quantized?[/*][*]What is a black body in physics?[/*][*]How can Wien's displacement law be used by a nurse in a hospital?[/*][*]What does doubling the temperature do to the power emitted by a star?[/*][*]What wavelength of light is required if the goal is to eject electrons from aluminum with 3.0 eV of kinetic energy?[/*][*]What is a photon?[/*][*]Who first suggested the quantum hypothesis?[/*][*]What is the energy associated with a single photon of wavelength 633 nm?[/*][*]What do we mean when we say that what we have traditionally thought of as particles are really waves?[/*][/list]
Answers
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