Henry J
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Joined: Mar. 2005
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dheddle,
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Energy is not quantized. Energy levels in bound systems are quantized. Thus atoms absorb and emit discrete amounts of energy. But free particles can have any old kinetic energy--i.e. its possible values are continuous.
Richard, OTOH, could learn to be more discreet, but that's another story. |
Yeah, I oversimplified the point I was making, which was that electromagnetic energy is in discrete packets, in contrast to the wave theory that was (mostly?) accepted prior to Einstein's analysis.
Henry
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