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Use the information about four different waves to answer the question.

Which Wave Contains the Lowest Energy?
Wave # Frequency Wavelength
Wave 1 6.66 × 1014 Hz 450 nm
Wave 2 5.77 × 1014 Hz 520 nm
Wave 3 4.61 × 1014 Hz 650 nm
Wave 4 4.28 × 1014 Hz 700 nm
Which wave contains the lowest energy?

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wave 4
wave 4

wave 2
wave 2

wave 1
wave 1

wave 3

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Wave 4

Energy of a photon E = h·f, so lower frequency means lower energy. Wave 4 has the lowest frequency (4.28 × 10^14 Hz) and the longest wavelength (700 nm), so it has the lowest energy.