Weather radar systems emit radio waves in pulses. For a typical system the frequency used is 3.00 GHz (1 GHz = 109 Hz) and the minimum energy uncertainty of the radio photons is 5.50 * 10-29 J. Find (a) the time duration of each pulse, (b) the length of each pulse, (c) the energy of an average photon, and (d) the minimum frequency uncertainty.

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Weather radar systems emit radio waves in pulses. For a typical system the frequency used is 3.00 GHz (1 GHz = 109 Hz) and the minimum energy uncertainty of the radio photons is 5.50 * 10-29 J. Find (a) the time duration of each pulse, (b) the length of each pulse, (c) the energy of an average photon, and (d) the minimum frequency uncertainty.

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