Photon-Energy

Photon energy equation (Seinfeld & Pandis 2006 Ch. 4, Eq. 4.1) — the energy Δε and frequency ν of a photon as a function of wavelength λ via Planck's constant h and the speed of light c: ν = c/λ and Δε = hν, equivalently the chained form Δε = hc/λ. The component is observed-only: two algebraic equations on two state variables (Δε the photon energy in J and ν the frequency in Hz) driven by one input parameter (λ the wavelength) and two constants (h Planck's constant and c the speed of light). No time derivatives, no PDE, no coupling. Migrated from GasChem.jl@8c12c048 src/radiation_fundamentals.jl:25 (`PhotonEnergy` @component). The photon energy equation is the foundational quantum-radiative bridge that maps continuous-wave radiation to the discrete photon picture: paired with the Planck spectral distribution (BlackbodyRadiation), Stefan-Boltzmann total flux (StefanBoltzmann), and Wien peak displacement (WienDisplacement), it lets a radiative-transfer model convert spectral irradiance to photon fluxes and back — the quantity needed for actinic-flux / photolysis-rate calculations that drive atmospheric photochemistry (e.g., O2 + hν → 2 O at ~242 nm and O3 + hν → O + O2 at ~310 nm, the two Chapman-cycle photolysis channels). The defaults (λ = 500 nm) give ν ≈ 600 THz and Δε ≈ 3.97e-19 J ≈ 2.48 eV — visible green light, the canonical solar-peak wavelength matching Wien's law applied to T_sun ≈ 5800 K.