Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: richtig_faust
richtig_faust says:   "you forgot the divisor of 2*pi."

I forgot no such thing. Energy equals h*c, not h-bar*c. The equation properly uses Planck's constant (h), not Dirac's constant (h-bar). Planck's constant is the correct choice in the above equations.

richtig_faust says:   "BUT doppler shift is a frequency shift measurement, they are NOT measuring momentum, they measure FREQUENCY."

Of course they measure frequency, nobody has suggested otherwise. However the result of a decrease in momentum of a photon is a commensurate decrease in the observed frequency.

--Boot Hill

46 posted on 11/20/2003 10:20:00 PM PST by Boot Hill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies ]


To: Boot Hill
However the result of a decrease in momentum of a photon is a commensurate decrease in the observed frequency.


But not angular momentum
50 posted on 11/21/2003 6:12:20 AM PST by richtig_faust
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson