Quantum

Physics
 INSTRUCTIONS FOR STUDENTS

The duration of the Please read the Learning Objective and During the lesson please keep your
lesson will be 25 mins write it down in your notebook along microphone on mute unless the teacher
with the teacher and 20 with the title of the topic. If you do not calls your name or you need to ask her a
mins for completing the have the notebook kindly do the task on question to clear your doubts. 
given tasks.  an A4 size paper.

Respect your peers and listen
to them when they are
discussing or answering.
You must complete the If there is a video link uploaded During the lesson please pay attention
quiz/assignment during/at the please watch it before the to your teacher, listen to her carefully.
end of the lesson session. This will help you for If you have any questions or don’t
independently to the best of better participation. understand only then unmute your
your ability.  microphone and ask her your doubts. 
Which skills you
will be using it 
LESSON
OBJECTI
VE
To be able to use the
software to collect data and
conclusion of the virtual
experiment
 • Able to identify the
variables and collect
data 

• Able to conclude the relation

SUCCESS CRITERIA: between the two chosen

variables.
 Choice – HL and SL

For SL working
For HL –
on the pending
Photoelectric
assignment of IA
gizmo
work
 • Shoot a beam of light at a metal plate in a
Photoelectric virtual lab and observe the effect on surface
electrons. The type of metal as well as the
Effect wavelength and amount of light can be
adjusted. An electric field can be created to
resist the electrons and measure their initial
energies.
 WRITE THE FINDINGS IN TAKE THE PICTURE 
YOUR NOTE BOOK 
Explore the
simulation 

PASTE IT IN ONE OF THE

SLIDES OF THIS PPT
Which skills you have
developed so far?
 Plenary

Complete the lab-based questions – Below the Gizmo simulation 

Jasmehar kochhar
The simulation had 4 variable 
The voltage connected to the metal plate 
The metal 
the wavelength of light 
And the photon flux 
Through experimentation I found out that 
Different metals need different amount of energies to release electrons 
given voltage to the plate the electrons are attracted backwards towards the plate, the greater the 
The photon flux doesn’t effect the speed but just the amount of electrons getting the energy, higher the photon flux
the greater the amount of electrons released 
The wavelength gives the electrons energy and will determine the speed as well as whether the electron are released
at all.
Formula for energy = 
E = 
 • There were 4 variables present in
Dhruv Arora the simulation - voltage 
Kartikeya
• Variables and observations
• There were 4 independent variables-voltage in circuit, photon flux, wavelength,
metal
Findings and conclusion Wavelength of photon-ranged from 100-700 nm,at wavelength higher than around
420 the photon did not jump.
Jeba shaik 
Summary of the simulation:
Potassium: when the wavelength is less and
voltage is high the electrons are released and
they travel till an extent but however the
voltage being higher towards the end the
electrons bounce back and the electrons are
that leave are less as the photon flux is less
and once its doubled, al electrons eave
towards the sources except one.
Calcium- simillarly as the wavlength is
increasing the electrons cant travel towards
teh beam the speed of the electorns is less
and as the wavelength reduce the speed is
higher of the electrond a
 • The photoelectric effect is the
Arjun Vaidya process by which electron are
released by a metal when it is hit
with a wavelenght that is lower
than a set wavelenght for the
metal. In the simulation, as the
wavelength is decreased, the
velocity of the electrons kept
increasing 
 • This simulation explores the photoelectric effect.  What
I observed is that, as the wavelengths move more to
Siddharth Mahadevan the left, i.e. as the wavelength decreases, the more the
light excites the electrons to move towards the plate on
the right. The photon flux refers to the intensity of the
light, or rather how many electrons it excites. The
voltage refers to the force pulling the electrons back to
the plate on the left. The material used for the plate
also affects the pull of the  electron back to the left
plate, so in this simulation,