Lord, we offer to you our 

class today.
We pray that through your Divine Guidance,
we would learn how to listen attentively to
the inputs of our teachers....
Grant that we recognize YOU in each
of our classmates and teachers.
Give us strength in our weakness.
Give us faith in our fear,
Give us power in our powerlessness.
We trusting You.
AMEN…
Subject: Physical Science

Topic: Photon Energy by Wavelength

Today we will be guided with this competency:

Explain how the photon concept and the fact that the
energy of a photon is directly proportional to its
frequency can be used to explain why red light is used in
photographic dark rooms, why we get easily sunburned
in ultraviolet light but not in visible light, and how we see
colors S11/12PS-IVf-61
 Activity: Tell Who Am I
Directions: Study the diagram, then unscramble the
letters on the box to name the illustrated
property of light.

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 Activity: What I Know

Directions: True or False

1. Photon energy is the energy carried by a single photon. TRUE

2. Electromagnetic radiation exists with an enormous range
of frequencies. TRUE
3. The amount of energy is inversely proportional to the
photon’s electromagnetic frequencies. FALSE
4. The higher the photon’s frequency, the lower its energy. FALSE
5. The electromagnetic spectrum can be expressed in terms
of energy, wavelength, or frequency. TRUE
 Words of the Day

Photon Wavelength Frequency

 What is Photon?

A photon (from Ancient Greek (phôs, phōtós) 'light') is

an elementary particle that is a quantum of the
electromagnetic field, including electromagnetic radiation
such as light and radio waves, and the force carrier for the
electromagnetic force.
Photons are massless, so they always move at the speed

of light in vacuum.
As shown by Maxwell, photons are just electric fields
traveling through space. Photons have no charge, no
resting mass, and travel at the speed of light.
Photons are emitted by the action of charged
particles, although they can be emitted by other
methods including radioactive decay. Since they are
extremely small particles, the contribution of wavelike
characteristics to the behavior of photons is significant.
 Creation of Photons

Blackbody Radiation
- It causes light bulbs to glow, and the heat of an object to
be felt from a great distance. The simplification of objects
as blackbodies allows indirect temperature calculation of
distant objects. Astronomers and kitchen infrared
thermometers use this principle every day.
 Spontaneous Emission

Photons may be spontaneously emitted when electrons

fall from an excited state to a lower energy state(usually
the ground state). The technical term for this drop in
energy is a relaxation. Electrons undergoing this type
of emission will produce a very distinctive set of
photons based on the available energy levels of their
environment. This set of possible photons is the basis
for an emission spectrum.
 Florescence

Florescence is special case of spontaneous emission. In

florescence, the energy of a photon emitted does not
match the energy used to excite the electron. Generally
florescence is employed in a laboratory setting to
visualize the presence of target molecules. UV light is
used to excite electrons, which then emit light at visible
wavelengths that researchers can see.
 Photon properties

They have zero mass and rest energy. They only exist
as moving particles.
 They are elementary particles despite lacking rest
mass.
 They have no electric charge.
 They are stable.
 They are spin-1 particles which makes them bosons.
(Bosons are particles that carry energy and forces
throughout the universe.)
They carry energy and momentum which are
dependent on the frequency.
They can have interactions with other particles such
as electrons, such as the Compton effect.
They can be destroyed or created by many natural
processes, for instance when radiation is absorbed
or emitted.
When in empty space, they travel at the speed of
light.
 Facts about photons

• Not only is light made up of photons, but all electromagnetic

energy (ex., microwaves, radio waves, X-rays) is made up of
photons.
• The original concept of the photon was developed by Albert
Einstein. However, it was scientist Gilbert N. Lewis who first
used the word “photon” to describe it.
• The theory that states that light behaves both like a wave and
a particle is called the wave-particle duality theory.
• Photons are always electrically neutral. They have no
electrical charge.
• Photons do not decay on their own.
Finally, in 2016, Polish physicists created the
first ever hologram of a single light particle.
The team at the University of Warsaw made
the hologram by firing two light beams at a
beam splitter, made of calcite crystal, at the
same time. The beam splitter have similar
character to a traffic light intersection so each
photon can either pass straight through or
make a turn. When a photon is on its own,
each path is equally probable but when more
photons are involved, they interact and the
odds change.
 Relation of Photon to Wavelength

 The energy of a photon is inversely proportional to the

wavelength of a photon.
 Assignment

Bring scientific calculator

 Reflection

What have you learned in our

today’s lesson?
Thank you and God Bless you all…..
 Relation of Photon to Wavelength
 The energy of a photon is inversely proportional to the
wavelength of a photon.
Where:
E = photon energy,
h = Planck’s constant
(6.626×Js)
c = speed of the light (3×m/s)
λ = wavelength of the light.