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Which of the following occurs as the energy of a photon increases?
A) The frequency decreases.
B) The wavelength increases.
C) The speed increases.
D) The wavelength gets shorter.
E) None of the above occurs as the energy of a photon increases.
A photon is an elementary particle. This particle is in the electromagnetic field. The energy of a photon depends on the frequency, so the higher the frequency, then the more energy the photon will have. So red light that has more photons can carry more energy with a higher frequency than blue light with less photons and lower frequency.
With this knowledge, we can eliminate the option of frequency decreasing. More energy will result in the wavelength getting shorter and speed would be at the same rate, so the wavelength getting shorter is what will happen when the energy of a photon increases.
The correct answer is D, the wavelength gets shorter when the energy of the photon increases.