Photons - Polarization

All photons travel at the speed of light, but when they hit something, its like they were pointed in a particular directon, or spinning around a particular axis. This is called the photon polarization. Polarization can be a direction like up or down, left or right. Polarization can also mean spin in a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction.

The Planck constant

The Planck constant is equal to 6.626*10^-34 Joule-Sec. and establishes the relationship between wavelength and energy. A short length = high energy (ultraviolet) and a long length = low energy (heat). To convert from length to energy, take 1240 divided by the nanometer wavelength to get the energy in evolts. For a green (630nm) photon 1240/630nm=1.97ev

Quantum Mechanics Concepts - DrPhysicsA     This video will provide you with the information to calculate the probability that light polarized in a specific direction will get through a polarizer pointed in a different direction. You will learn to represent a photon of light as an array with two complex numbers in it. The complex conjugate of another array (representing the polarizer angle) can then be multiplied by this array (the photon representation) to give you the probability that the photon will go through the polarizer.     The representation of a photon as a vector, is the polarization component of the Jones Vector. To represent this visually, the real part of the variable is where the polarization is right now. The imaginary part represents where the polarization angle is going. Remember, these angles only represent the amplitude of probability. 0:00 Quantum Mechanics Concepts, Dirac notation and photon polarization 1:35 Notations and Mathematics, Ket and Bra vectors 3:30 Complex numbers and mapping on a plane 5:30 Complex conjugates and some calculated results 9:10 Ket and Bra vector mathematics, addition and scalar multiplication 11:20 Multiply a Bra vector times a Ket vector 14:05 Matrices - Conjugated, Transposed and the Dagger 18:40 When a matrix is the same as its Daggar - Hermitian 20:00 Matrix applied to a Ket vector is new Ket vector 24:57 Hermitian matrix, eigenvectors and eigenvalues 27:04 Polarization - vertically polarized light 33:20 Vertically polarized light through a horizontal polarizer 40:10 Physical meaning of Hermitian, eigenvalues and eigenvectors 44:10 Orthoganol vectors 46:30 Eigenvalues of experiment to test if light is horizontal or vertical 48:40 Observable or experiment and state of system, will produce same state depending on polarization 50:00 45 degree light through a 45 degree polarizer and normalization 61:00 45 degree light through a vertical polarizer 64:00 Red light or green light on the detector Additional Learn axioms, particles and forces of Animated Physics