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Thanks for the reply! It might be a weird question, I assume that most people learned the photoelectric effect in terms of KE(of the photoelectron) = hf (incident photon) - work function, but I was told in my medical imaging class that the probability of a photon being absorbed is proportional...

I was recently taught that the probability of the photoelectric effect occurring was proportional to Z^3 and E^-3 (where Z is the atomic number, and E is the energy of the photon). My understanding is that the photon's energy must be close to the binding energy of the inner electron to be...

Thanks for the replies. Sorry I'm completely lost when it comes to physics, so my understanding now is that the spacing between energy levels get smaller until a point where the electron ionizes. I'm guessing that point is at 13.6eV? Sorry if I still don't understand, does this mean that...

Regarding a potential well that is proportional to -1/|x|, are the amount of possible energy levels finite or infinite? (The potential well is narrow in the middle and approaches a horizontal asymptote as you leave the middle, like the shape of a tornado). I figured it would be infinite...