Thursday 22 January 2015

Photoelectric Effect a brief description

Photoelectric Effect

“I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanic.” – Richard Feynman.


 What is Photoelectric Effect?
      
         When a ray of light (of finite value of frequency or frequencies) incidence on a photosensitive metal ( Na, K, Cs etc. ) sheet , then electron emanate from the sheet. T phenomena of emission of electron from such a metal sheet is
called Photoelectric Effect or Photoelectricity. 
                       
Fig.1 - Photoelectron emission

Photoemission characteristics:
         
                             1.       The number of photoelectron emitted per sec that is photoelectric current is                                           proportional to the intensity of the incident light but is independent of the frequency of                         it.
                     
                          

             2.       The velocity of the photoelectron which may vary between zero to a definite maximum                         value is only depend on the frequency of the light incident and increase linearly but                              independent of the intensity of light.

             3.        For a given metallic sheet the emission of photoelectron take place only if the frequency                     of light is greater than a definite value called threshold frequency.

             4.       The time take to  taken by the photoelectron to emits is in the order of few milli sec                               which is very very small to our sense.
                    
                 

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2 comments:

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