The human eye is most sensitive to green light of wavelength 505 nm . Experiments have found that when people are kept in a dark room until their eyes adapt to the darkness, a single photon of green light will trigger receptor cells in the rods of the retina.1.What is the frequency of this photon?2.How much energy (in joules and eV ) does it deliver to the receptor cells?

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1. [tex]5.94\cdot 10^{14} Hz[/tex]

The frequency of a photon is given by:

[tex]f=\frac{c}{\lambda}[/tex]

where

c is the speed of light

[tex]\lambda[/tex] is the wavelength

The wavelength of the photon in this problem is

[tex]\lambda=505 nm=5.05\cdot 10^{-7}m[/tex]

So, the frequency of the photon is

[tex]f=\frac{3\cdot 10^8 m/s}{5.05\cdot 10^{-7} m}=5.94\cdot 10^{14} Hz[/tex]

2. [tex]3.94\cdot 10^{-19}J, 2.46 eV[/tex]

The energy of a photon is given by

[tex]E=hf[/tex]

where

h is the Planck constant

f is the frequency of the photon

The frequency of the photon in this problem is

[tex]f=5.94\cdot 10^{14} Hz[/tex]

so its energy in Joules is

[tex]E=(6.63\cdot 10^{-34}Js)(5.94\cdot 10^{14}Hz)=3.94\cdot 10^{-19}J[/tex]

And since

[tex]1 eV = 1.6\cdot 10^{-19}J[/tex]

The energy in eV is

[tex]E=\frac{3.94\cdot 10^{-19} J}{1.6\cdot 10^{-19}J/eV}=2.46 eV[/tex]

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