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Bashyboy
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I am reading Schiff's book on Quantum Mechanics.He is discussing how Planck sought to account for the Blackbody radiation phenomenon, and correctly did so by assuming that the energy of light was described by the equation ##E = h \nu##. He then claims that, because the energy of light is described by this equation, light is "sometimes like a stream of corpuscular quanta."
I am having difficulty seeing how ##E = h \nu## describing the energy of light implies that it is a particle. Couldn't light till be a wave and have its energy described by ##E = h \nu##?
I am having difficulty seeing how ##E = h \nu## describing the energy of light implies that it is a particle. Couldn't light till be a wave and have its energy described by ##E = h \nu##?