Simulation: Photon Energy, Momentum, and Surface Pressure
Tune wavelength, power, and absorption-vs-reflection mode to compare photon energy, flux, momentum transfer, and resulting pressure/force.
Appears in: 22.1 Photons, Energy Quantisation, and the Photoelectric Start, 22.2 Photoelectric Effect Evidence and Einstein's Equation, 22.3 Compton Scattering and Photon Momentum Evidence, 22.4 de Broglie Hypothesis and Matter-Wave Scaling, 22.5 Electron Diffraction, Bragg Geometry, and Quantised Orbits
Beam-To-Surface Interaction
Photon Energy
2.431 eV
Photon Momentum
1.30e-27 kg m/s
Photon Flux
1.03e+20 /s
Photons per ns
1.03e+11