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Talk:Photoelectric effect (view source)
Revision as of 15:52, October 26, 2008
, 15:52, October 26, 2008E vs. p
: So you are saying that Planck's idea was that light is emitted in quantized wave packets of energy at a particular frequency, and Einstein's idea was that light is emitted as a particle. Einstein was correct while Planck was wrong or did not understand what he did or reluctant to take the quantum leap or otherwise somehow underdeserving of credit for quantizing light. Is that right? [[User:RSchlafly|RSchlafly]] 11:36, 26 October 2008 (EDT)
: So you are saying that Planck's idea was that light is emitted in quantized wave packets of energy at a particular frequency, and Einstein's idea was that light is emitted as a particle. Einstein was correct while Planck was wrong or did not understand what he did or reluctant to take the quantum leap or otherwise somehow underdeserving of credit for quantizing light. Is that right? [[User:RSchlafly|RSchlafly]] 11:36, 26 October 2008 (EDT)
::I don't know whether my points were so garbled - or only your renarration of them is. Einstein's idea is that light can be regarded (at least sometimes) as existing from particles. Planck is clearly ''undeserving of credit for quantizing light'' - and stated so himself, several times. He gave full credit to Einstein, even under difficult circumstances, i.e., living in Nazi-Germany.
::One could say that while Planck gave the ''energy'' of a quantum, Einstein gave its ''impulse''. --[[User:BRichtigen|BRichtigen]] 11:52, 26 October 2008 (EDT)