I was looking for a link to the "Frequency - Wavelength Converter" included on that old "climate surfings" thread:
http://www.scienceagogo.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=26454#Post26454...and I ran across this. Thought it might be helpful:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/04/back-to-the-future/#comment-89262The energy of a 15micron photon is 1.325×10^-20 joules; its momentum is 4.4×10^-29.
The kinetic energy of a CO2 molecule at 300K is 6.214×10^-21 joules (3742 joules for a mol); its momentum is 3.0×10^-23; its velocity (or the average velocity for a mol) is 412.5 m/sec.
One photon’s energy going into one molecule’s translation will raise its temperature from 300K to 630K; the mol’s avg. temp would increase to 300.038K.
...or maybe someone over there could help out more.
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