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The work function of cesium is 2eV. Explain this statement.

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For the emission of photoelectrons from the cesium metal, the minimum energy of the incident light on the metal surface should have the photon of energy 2eV.
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  2. The photoelectric effect can be explained on the basis of

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  3. Which of the following has minimum stopping potential?

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  7. The photoelectric work function for a metal surface is 4.125 eV. The c...

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  9. Threshold wavelength for a metal having work function w(0) is lambda. ...

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  10. The work function for metals A , B and C are respectively 1.92 eV , 2....

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  13. What is de-Broglie wavelength assciated with electron moving under a ...

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  14. The minimum energy required by an electron to..........form the metal ...

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  15. The maximum kinetic energy of emitted photoelectrons depends on the......

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  16. The ratio of number of photoelectrons ejected to the number of the pho...

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  17. For given photosenstive material, the photoelectric current is...........

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  18. An increase in the frequency of the incident light.............the vel...

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  19. The minimum energy required to ejected an electron from the surface of...

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  20. In photoelectric effect the energy of the free electron does not depen...

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  21. Photon is not a..........but it is a.......... .

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