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Textbook Solutions for Physics: Principles with Applications

Chapter 28 Problem 41

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A laser used to weld detached retinas puts out 25-ms-long pulses of 640-nm light which average 0.68-W output during a pulse. How much energy can be deposited per pulse and how many photons does each pulse contain? [Hint: See Example 274.]

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From the textbook chapter Quantum Mechanics of Atoms you will find a few key concepts needed to solve this.

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Title Physics: Principles with Applications 7 
Author Douglas C. Giancoli
ISBN 9780321625922

A laser used to weld detached retinas puts out 25-ms-long

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