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Q: 11.25 (a)  Estimating the following two numbers should be interesting. The first number will tell you why radio engineers do not need to worry much about photons! The second number tells you why our eye can never ‘count photons’, even in barely detectable light. The number of photons emitted per second by a Medium wave transmitter of 10\hspace{1mm}kW  power, emitting radiowaves of wavelength 500\hspace{1mm}m

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The power emitted by the transmitter(P) =10kW

Wavelengths of photons being emiited=500 m

The energy of one photon is E

\\E=\frac{hc}{\lambda }\\ E=\frac{6.62\times 10^{-34}\times 3\times 10^{8}}{500}\\ E=3.96\times 10^{-28}J

Number of photons emitted per second(n) is given by

\\n=\frac{P}{E}\\ n=\frac{10000}{3.96\times 10^{-28}}\\ n=2.525\times 10^{31}s^{-1}

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