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Can someone explain what is stopping potenial is and can explain the formula : e × Vs. Does the v stand for voltage
Can you show us the reading you've been doing about this please? Thanks.Can someone explain what is stopping potenial is and can explain the formula : e × Vs. Does the v stand for voltage
When a photon is absorbed some of its energy is used to free the electron and what is left over is given to the freed electron as kinetic energy.
When a photon is absorbed some of its energy is used to free the electron and what is left over is given to the freed electron as kinetic energy.
In the (over)simplified treatment of the photoelectric effect that you commonly find in introductory textbooks like that, the "energy used to free the electron" is not the same for each electron. Crudely and simplistically speaking, think of it as reflecting how "deeply buried" the electron was in the material. A certain minimum energy is needed to free the electron, corresponding to a maximum kinetic energy after ejection.in Serway's "Modern Physics", he mentions a maximum kinetic energy for the freed electron being equal to the leftover photon energy, which implies there are probably other processes which might take away said energy.