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# Experimental of Photoelectric effect. variation of photocurrent with collector plate

study #

potential for different frequencies of incident

(Source)
↳ Flow of Photo ef radial -on .

↳ Photo current Photocurrent

.
generated

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Saturation
Current
Os Je J
V
A f I
-

Voz -

Voz -

Vol O Collector y
-
Retarding Plate Potential
potential
#Photoelectric Current :
# Law of photoelectric emission
intensity
·
notoelectric current depends on the metal and I incident radiation
↳ For a
given quency of 3

of incident light and the

#
D the number of photoelections ejected per second is
potential
·
difference applied directly proportional to the intensity of the incident light
.

between the two electrodes

·

↳ For a given metal , there exists a certain minimum

PhotoCurrent
<Intensity E X frequency of the incident radiation below which no

Intensity of light
emission of photoelections takes place This
frequency
light
.

is known as threshold frequency

·
Variation of photocurrent with collector
↳ Above the threshold maximum
plate potential for different
intensity of incident -

frequency , the
kinetic is
-

radiation . energy of the emitted photoelection

independent of the intensity of incident light but
photo electric A
depends only upon the frequency of incident light.
current #3) [2 I
,

I3 Y =

Stopping

-
#2 ↳ The photoelectric emission is

-
potential an instantaneous
I

-
process The time lag between the incidence of radiation
,
.

& emission of
photoelection is small , less than
very
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g I X of I ave Nature Matter : Louis de-Broglie suggested that

Retarding
F
collector plate >
the material particle can behave both particle
-

as wave as well as
potential Potential
and the waves associated with moving material particles are called

Potential : The minimum

Stopping negative potential matter waves ·

given to anode plate worst to cathode plate De-Broglie Hypothesis : Acc to de-Broglie ,
a
moving material

at which the photoelectric current becomes particles can be associated with a wave or a wave can
guide
is potential the motion of particle
stopping
zero known as or a .

cutoff potential
: It is denoted
by Vo x
4
=

variation of
Stopping Potential Vo with De-Broglie Wavelength of Electron : When a beam of electron

frequency o -on
of incident radial is accelerated
through a potential difference v then the kinetic ,

energy acquired by electron is given by--ImvE ev

. S metal A metal B
my2 = zel
-
= (mvE2meV
Amer -x y h = y 12 27A
-
mv = = = = .

my Emer IT
0 > 0o
# Heisenberg's uncertainity principle :It is not possible to measure
o 82 ! both the position & momentum of electron at the same time exactly .

E Jo O!
There is always some uncertainity (x) in the specification of position
and some
uncertainity (AP) in the specification of momentum
.

O radiation (6)
Frequency of incident xAp
= t
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