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What is the minimum amount of light required to eject electrons from its shell?
« on: May 10, 2013, 06:37:12 AM »
This speaks about the Photoelectric effect; when light touches an object it reflects back. Please state your answer in 0C.
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Re: What is the minimum amount of light required to eject electrons from its shell?
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2013, 09:18:53 AM »
It depends on the element.
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Re: What is the minimum amount of light required to eject electrons from its shell?
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2013, 06:52:20 AM »
If you're lucky, the minimum amount is one photon, which is little.
But there is a minimum frequency.
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Re: What is the minimum amount of light required to eject electrons from its shell?
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2013, 08:45:45 AM »
It depends highly on the element from which elctron is ejected.If it is a bigger atom like potassium then ejection would be easier i.e lesser amount of photons required !
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Re: What is the minimum amount of light required to eject electrons from its shell?
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2013, 08:55:09 PM »
No.
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Re: What is the minimum amount of light required to eject electrons from its shell?
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2013, 10:38:06 PM »
@isha2ubt

You are confusing amount of energy required with amount of photons required.  Photons have different amounts of energy depending on their frequency of oscillation.
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