Question: An X-ray photon can hit an electron without that electron picking up all the photon's energy. Make a hypothesis about the frequency of the photon

An X-ray photon can hit an electron without that electron picking up all the photon's energy. Make a hypothesis about the frequency of the photon that "leaves the scene" of the collision. (This phenomenon is called the Compton effect.)

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