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Monday, 2 February 2015

Failure of Electromagnetic Wave Theory To Describe Photoelectric Effect

According to electromagnetic theory, light is a resultant propagation of electric and magnetic field mutually perpendicular to it and it exert force on an electron continuously. But these rigorous theory of light fail to explain the characteristic of photoelectron emitting
from certain metal surface when a light of certain frequency incident on it.