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Planck–Einstein Relation
Quantum · 1900
- Equation
- E = hν
- Field
- Quantum
- Named After
- Max Planck · Albert Einstein
- Symbols
- E photon energy · h Planck constant · ν frequency of light
- Significance
- Light comes in packets whose energy scales with frequency — the crack in classical physics that opened into quantum theory.
- Year
- 1900
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