What kind of energy is a beam of sunlight?
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Particle and Wave.\n\nGood Luck\n\nJimmy
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I would immediately say sunlight, but this would really depend on the conditions. Sunlight is more intense and therefore contains more energy than artificial light, however artificial light could be on all the time. This basically has to do with the amount of light/energy a plant can absorb/convert into plant in a space of time. I would still go with sunlight, more environmentally friendly :)
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Chlorophyll. It needs the presence of sunlight too.
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Sunlight is known as white light. Whit light is made up of seven different colored lights: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. When a ray of white light passes through a prism, it breaks into its components. This happens because all the seven colored lights have different wavelenghts and slightly diferent travelling speeds. A water droplet acts like a prism and refracts/divides white light into its seven componenets resulting in a rainbow.
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You could focus sunlight from a bundle of light fibers using a lens and really burn things up.\n\nFocused sunlight can burn holes through steel plates.\n\nAny amount of sunlight falling on something will heat it.\n\nYou only need a simple thermometer to check it out.
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Very good question it is.\nbut\nPhoton is pure energy is it not?
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God doesn't exist.  The Sun creates energy through nuclear fusion.  \n\nNuclear power is the only thing left to power the Sun for as long as it has been shining. There are two types possible: fusion and fission. They both transform the nucleus of an atom into another type of nucleus. Fission produces energy by breaking up massive nuclei like uranium into less massive nuclei like helium and lead. Fusion produces energy by fusing together light nuclei like hydrogen to make more massive muclei like helium. Atomic power plants and the Atom Bomb use fission to get the energy. Stars (like the Sun) and Hydrogen bombs use fusion.
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sun light - the photons break the covalent bonds between the hydrogen and oxygen
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Anything the energy can be converted to use for.\n\nUsually it is light and heat though.
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it absorbs light energy aka the photons and bounces them around and releases electrons
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If you want to look at it on the atomic level,\nyou can think of light as a photon (a packet of energy).\nThe photons can be absorbed by the electrons around the atom which will excite them into a higher energy state.  When the electron falls back down to the ground state, it gives off a photon with a specific amount of energy.\n\nhttp://www.amazingrust.com/New/beta/Experiments/background_knowledge/Spectroscopy.html
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Those values are incorrect.\n\nA simple way to calculate the mass to energy conversion is to take the luminosity of the sun (Energy output/second) and divide it by the speed of light squared: just as E=mc^2, m=E/c^2\n\nThe luminosity of the sun is ~3.8x10^26 Joules/sec.  c=3.0x10^8 m/s, so the sun converts ~4.2x10^9 kg of mass into energy each second, or 4.2 million metric tons.  Multiply by 3600 seconds in an hour to find 15 billion tons/hour (1.5x10^10 kg).\n\nH to He fusion converts a about 0.7% of the rest mass into photons (and an even smaller fraction into neutrinos) so multiply those numbers by 1/.007 to get the number of tons of hydrogen converted to helium.
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ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY is ENERGY coming from the POLARIZEd motion of ELECTRONs, but i don't think LIGHT is ELECTROMAGNETic ENERGY. For me, LIGHT is a FORM of QUANTUM ENERGY.
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moving from a higher to a lower energy level releases energy, producing light, but;\nit only produces light in the visible light spectrum when it moves down to level n=2.  if it ends up at another energy level, the light released will be infared, ultraviolet, etc... depending on where it ends up.
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A Solar cell is a device that converts the solar enery into electrical energy. They are also called Photovoltaic Cells. They are used in Solar Calculators, Street Lights, Some Traffic Lights, and Many more.
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The moon gets its light from the sun!  Way out in outer space, the sun produces light and heat.  The sun's energy is reflected off the surface of the moon and bounced back to the Earth.  What we see is the reflection of the sun's light on the moon.
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Mass and energy are different, but can be converted from one to the other. In the sun, nuclear reactions are continually converting small amounts of mass into large amounts of energy, which is light in all forms (from radio waves, through visible light, to gamma rays).\n\nPhotons are a pure form of energy, packets of electromagnetic radiation (sinusoidal electric and magnetic field waves travelling perpendicular to each other), that have no REST mass, but have momentum as they are travelling at the speed of light. This is what allows them to push solar sails.