Photoelectric Effect

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Photoelectric Effect: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Photoelectric Effect, Stopping Potential for Photoelectrons, Threshold Frequency for Photoelectric Effect & Conditions for Photoelectric Emission etc.

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How can you plot the graph between frequency of incident radiation for different metals.

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Variaion of photoelectric current with anode potential is correctly represented as .

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Photoelectric current IP vs Intensity I of incident radiation graph is correctly represented by IP vs I

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What is photoelectric effect?

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Which type of metals show the photoelectric effect with visible light?

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Which type of plate, Hallwachs used in his experiment ? 

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Explain what is Lenard's observation.

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The work function of photoelectric material is 3.3 eV. The threshold frequency for such material will be

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The work function of photoelectric material is 3.3 eV. The threshold frequency for such material will be

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The following graph represents the variation of photo current with anode potential for a metal surface. Here I1, I2 and I3 represents intensities and γ1,γ2,γ3 represents frequency for curves 1, 2 and 3 respectively, then

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The work function of photoelectric material is 3.3 eV. The threshold frequency for such material will be

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In a photoelectric effect experiment, collector plate is placed vertically above the emitter plate. Light is allowed to incident on emitter and saturation photocurrent is recorded. Now parallel electric and magnetic fields are applied vertically downwards between the plates. Then

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A light of frequency 2 MHz is projected on a material with threshold frequency 1000 MHz, the photoelectrons get emitted?

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Light from a bulb is falling on a wooden table but no photo electrons are emitted as

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In the photoelectric experiment, if we use a monochromatic light, the I-V curve is as shown. If work function of the metal is 2eV, estimate the power of light used. (Assume efficiency of photo emission is 10-3%, i.e. number of photoelectrons emitted are 10-3% of number of photons incident on metal.)

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In a photoelectric experiment, the relation between the applied potential difference V and the photoelectric current I was found to be as shown in the graph below. If the work function of the cathode plate is 28.8 eV and h=6.6×10-34 J s, the frequency of incident radiation would be nearly ( in Hz)

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Monochromatic light is incident on a metal surface and electrons are released. The intensity of the incident light is increased. What changes, if any, occur in the rate of emission of electrons and the kinetic energy of the emitted electrons?

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Light from a bulb is falling on a wooden table but no photo electrons are emitted as

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A light of frequency 2 MHz is projected on a material with threshold frequency 1000 MHz, the photoelectrons get emitted?

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The work function of photoelectric material is 3.3 eV. The threshold frequency for such material will be