1. What is the energy of a photon of yellow light ( 550 nm)? How big is this in comparison to the energy released every second by a standard 60W light bulb? How does this explain why we don't detect the quantization of light in the everyday world? =

1. What is the energy of a photon of yellow light ( 550 nm)? How big is this in comparison to the energy released every second by a standard 60W light bulb? How does this explain why we don't detect the quantization of light in the everyday world? =

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