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So if a H2 molecule collides with and absorbs a photon of wavelength around 60nm, I find the final velocity of H2 molecule (assuming momentum's conserved in collision) to be around 3.5 m/s, which I think is very small... I would have thought that since the wavelength of the photon is so small, the energy of it is pretty high, which means H2 should move much faster than just 3.5 m/s after the collision... it just doesn't make sense to me conceptually, I guess. Is there something wrong with my logic?