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Offline jbvaliquette

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Question help
« on: September 19, 2007, 10:55:33 PM »
if the specific heat of water is 4.184 J/g degrees celcius how many photons of blue light (410nm) are required to raise the temperature of a 5 gallong bord bath 3 degess celcius assuming complete transfer of energy to the water and no influence from the bird bath container.

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Re: Question help
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2007, 11:08:55 PM »
an attempt?

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Re: Question help
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2007, 01:29:14 AM »
Energy of photon= hf   (f=frequency, h=Planck's constant)


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