Summary powerful ppt nd notes on photoelectric effect
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Photoelectric effect
1887 –Hertz – UV rays are made to fall on negative plate of discharge tube –
electric discharge was easier.
Hallwachs – experimentally confirmed- two zinc plates inside a vacuum bulb-
UV rays falls on negative plate –current flows .
As UV rays stopped current also stops.
UV rays falls on positive plate- no current flows.
JJ Thomson- When light falls metal surface electrons are emitted from the
negative plate and attracted towards the positive plate –current flows.
If the rays falls on positive plate the electrons emitted from this plate do not
reach negative plate because electrons are negatively charged –circuit not
completed – no current flows.
,Hertz and Lenard’s observations
• Different plates –illuminated them with light of different frequencie
and different intensities and
• measured energy of
• photoelectrons and strength of
• photocurrent.
, Dependence on intensity of light
• Light of definite intensity and definite frequency falls on the plate –
photoelectrons are emitted from plate 1 and reaches plate 2 if plate
at sufficient positive potential.
• If positive potential of plate 2 is increased no increase in photocurren
because all electrons emitted are already reaching Plate 2.
• Intensity of incident light is increases,
photocurrent also increases- only when
accelerating potential and frequency of inciden
light is kept constant.
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