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JEE Main 2025 — 24 January, Evening Shift — Question 66

The ratio of the power of a light source S1S_{1} to that the light source S2S_{2} is 2.S12 . S_{1} is emitting 2×10152 \times 10^{15} photons per second at 600 nm . If the wavelength of the source S2S_{2} is 300 nm , then the number of photons per second emitted by S2S_{2} is \qquad ×1014\times 10^{14}.

Answer: 5

Numerical answer — enter this value.

Step-by-step solution

Since power emitting by a source is given as

= Total energy emitted  time =\frac{\text { Total energy emitted }}{\text { time }}

=(E1 photon )× Number of photons (N)t =\frac{\left(\mathrm{E}_{1} \text { photon }\right) \times \text { Number of photons }(\mathrm{N})}{\mathrm{t}}

P1=(E1)nP_{1}=\left(E_{1}\right) n

P1P2=(E1)n1(E2)n2=(hCλ1)n1(hCλ2)n2\frac{\mathrm{P}_{1}}{\mathrm{P}_{2}}=\frac{\left(\mathrm{E}_{1}\right) \mathrm{n}_{1}}{\left(\mathrm{E}_{2}\right) \mathrm{n}_{2}}=\frac{\left(\frac{\mathrm{hC}}{\lambda_{1}}\right) \mathrm{n}_{1}}{\left(\frac{\mathrm{hC}}{\lambda_{2}}\right) \mathrm{n}_{2}}

P1P2=(λ2λ1)n1n2\frac{\mathrm{P}_{1}}{\mathrm{P}_{2}}=\left(\frac{\lambda_{2}}{\lambda_{1}}\right) \frac{\mathrm{n}_{1}}{\mathrm{n}_{2}}

Substituting the given values

2=(300600)×2×1015n22=\left(\frac{300}{600}\right) \times \frac{2 \times 10^{15}}{\mathrm{n}_{2}}

n2=12×1015=5×1014\mathrm{n}_{2}=\frac{1}{2} \times 10^{15}=5 \times 10^{14} Photon /sec/ \mathrm{sec}

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Exam
JEE Main 2025
Subject
Physics
Chapter
Atomic Physics
Topic
Dual Nature of Matter