The Photoelectric Effect AP Physics Unit 12. History After Young’s experiment with interference (1830), light was understood to be a wave. Most physicists.

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The Photoelectric Effect AP Physics Unit 12

History After Young’s experiment with interference (1830), light was understood to be a wave. Most physicists accepted the wave nature of light

History Hertz, a student of Kirchoff, discovered the Photoelectric effect in Could not explain it and went on to discover other things, like how to produce radio waves

The Experiment

Shining violet light on the cathode caused a current to flow. Electrons were being ejected Increasing the intensity of light caused the current to increase

The Experiment

The Experiment, Part II Shining red light on the cathode caused no current to flow. Increasing the intensity of light had no effect!

The Problem If light was a wave, then the energy it would deliver to the electrons (to knock them off the metal) depended on its intensity, not it’s frequency But the electrons in the Photoelectric experiment were sensitive to the frequency!

The Problem No matter how intense, red light could not cause any electrons to flow. Even very low intensity violet light caused some electrons to be ejected.

The Solution Proposed by Einstein in 1905 Light must be a particle The energy of the particle must be related to it’s frequency This connected with earlier work of Max Planck

The Solution Electrons needed a certain amount of energy to be freed from the metal. Something has to do work on them to free them. This energy debt is called the work function

The Solution Light particles that did not have that minimum energy would not eject electrons, no matter how many particles there were.

Theory The energy of light is quantized and related to it’s frequency

Example Problem What is the energy associated with a photon with a wavelength of 632 nm?

Theory The KE of the ejected electron is given by

Theory The work function depends only on the metal. It is the energy debt of the bound electrons.

Experimental Details

Theory With enough voltage V o, the ejected electrons can be stopped.

Theory With enough voltage V o, the ejected electrons can be stopped.

Experiment Using the simulator, start with Sodium and set the voltage to 0 V. Determine the minimum frequency of the incident light that is needed to eject electrons. For each frequency that will eject electrons, measure and plot the voltage needed to then stop the current. Make a graph of the stopping potential (J) vs. the frequency of light. Find the slope and the intercept of the graph.

Prediction

Confirmation Robert Millikan (1910) performed careful experiments that completely verified Einstein’s theory. Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for this theory

Units of Energy Recall that energy can also be measured in electron volts.

Units of Energy Planck’s constant can be written in terms of eV

Example The work function for a metal is 3.4 eV. What is the threshold frequency f o needed to produce photoelectrons from this metal? F = 8.21x10 14 Hz

Links An applet to simulate the photoelectric effect A nice overview