Electromagnetic spectrum
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The electromagnetic spectrum is often shown as a range of photon energies and their names. Since, for electromagnetism, energy = frequency times a constant, as frequency goes up the energy of a photon goes up, so the highest energy photons have the highest frequency. Apparently the equation E=hv was just a guess by Max Plank, at the time there was no experimental or theoretical justification for the equation. A photon with a frequency of 1 Hz would thus have an energy of h which is equal to 6.62607015×10−34.