Assignment -2 / Engineering Physics (Photoelectric effect)

Last date of submission: 15.12.2022

Instructions:
i. All questions are compulsory. Handwritten answers are to be submitted. All the pages
of the assignment must contain student’s name and registration number.
ii. Submission after due date (15.12.2022) will not be accepted for grading. In
extreme cases, submission after the due date will be considered as “late
submission” and 40% marks will be deducted while grading.
iii. Your handwriting is not going to be assessed but it must be as clear as possible to
avoid any confusion during evaluation.
iv. Answers should be to the point and supplemented with proper diagram wherever
necessary.

Theory Questions (any two)

1. Draw a labelled diagram of the apparatus one will use to demonstrate the photoelectric
effect. Write down its important observations and show them graphically.
2. What is photoelectric effect? With reference to photoelectric effect explain the terms
stopping potential and threshold frequency. Plot (a) Photoelectric current Vs applied voltage
(b) Kinetic energy of the most energetic electrons Vs frequency of the incident light.
3. State and explain the photo electric equation. How does it explain the observations of the
photelectric effect experiment?
4. What do you mean by work function of a material? With a labelled diagram of the
apparatus, discuss how will you measure it experimentally?
Problems (all questions are to be attempted)
5. Electrons with a maximum kinetic energy of 2.3 eV are ejected from a metal surface by
photons of λ = 200 nm. Calculate the energy of the incident photons.
6. A radiation of wavelength 300 nm is incident on a silver surface. Will photoelectrons be
observed? work function of silver = 4.7 eV.
7. When light of wavelength 2200Å falls on Cu, photo electrons are emitted from it. Find (i)
the threshold wavelength and (ii) the stopping potential. Given: the work function for Cu
is ϕ0 = 4.65 eV.