Energy (photon)

The German physicist Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858 – 1947) postulated that the energy (E) of a photon can be written as:

energy (E) = h ν

Here, h = 6.626,070,15×10^-34 J·s is Planck's constant and ν the frequency of the light.

Related quantities

• constant (Planck)
• energy
• energy (electrical)
• energy (mass)
• energy (mechanical)
• energy (thermal)
• frequency
• power