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@PeroK and @vanhees71 Appreciate your responses, I will definitely dig into that topic further. If we drop back to wave theory of light, is there a simple answer to my original example? Is it just the speed of light compared to rate of acceleration to determine what the wavelength/frequency of...

Right, but as long as we are using photons as the representation of light, then any charged particle being accelerated would produce a photon? Edit: or multiple photons

Would you be able to cite a source for this? My understanding is that a photon is a common representation of light. And when representing light with photons, then any EM wave would consist of photons. I'm strictly interested in what the differences will be in light emitted between the cases in...

I understand that any accelerating charged particle will emit a photon. But I do not understand how the rate of acceleration relates to the photon that is emitted. For example: If a proton is falling to Earth in a vacuum at 9.8 m/s^2, then what are the characteristics of the photon that will be...

@PeroK Got it. Thanks for your help!

That is interesting. Is there any intuition behind this explanation or is our best understanding strictly mathematic (i.e. wave functions)?

@PeroK That, unfortunately, does not aid my understanding.

@PeroK Hmm so what are the light and dark spots that you would observe in the double slit experiment? Are those photons getting concentrated into certain places?

When two photons constructively interfere, what is resultant photon/waves' characteristics? When we talk about physical waves like sound, the constructive interference results in their amplitudes essentially being added together. But with light, my understanding is that the amplitude of a...

So to consider a single atom in a vacuum, would the shape change as the atom is heated?

This is the thing I most want to dig into. In what way do the shapes change? And is there also a difference between gas/liquid as there is with liquid/solid? That is intuitive, thanks.

This doesn't really seem relevant to my original questions?

Probability cloud model (which I understand to be the current accepted model?)

1. Do electron orbitals ever change in _shape_? Specifically, does a solid have the same orbital shapes as a liquid? 2. Are there any factors that would change the _size_ of electron orbitals?