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timmyeatchips
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To back me up with some of my chemistry courses this year, I picked up a quantum mechanics book that looked like it included some fairly simple introductions to quantum principles.
However, in the first chapter it used Compton scattering, the lowering in wavelength of X rays due to collision with atomic electrons, as early evidence for the existence of the photon.
My question is, how does this partial loss of energy fit in with the idea of photon energy being quantised?
However, in the first chapter it used Compton scattering, the lowering in wavelength of X rays due to collision with atomic electrons, as early evidence for the existence of the photon.
My question is, how does this partial loss of energy fit in with the idea of photon energy being quantised?