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Originally Posted by Ken G
...the answers are:
1) yes
2) yes
3) yes
4) yes
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Odd, I am more accustomed to more no's.
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(4) means you are treating both the photon and the electron quantum mechanically, and so this is the most correct way, although you have to be clear that you are using the generic meaning for "absorption" (that is, some people only use the word absorption to mean when the photon is thermalized and destroyed).
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I assume the photon transfers its energy to an electron, raising it to the next, or higher, energy shell. Then, the reverse happens allowing the resurrected photon, if you will, to take off in any direction, I assume. Is this a fair picture? If so, wouldn't this greatly slow down the propogation rate of light through a medium. Is this random walking, or just random thinking?
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By the way, Mie scattering doesn't mean it's inelastic, it means the way a wave interferes with itself is important, i.e., the size of the scatterer is not much smaller than the wavelength.
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I don't understand the true use of the term. I simply read it somewhere and it stuck. Further help would be appreciated.
[BTW, I want to observe blues, not give them to others.
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