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Human skin is relatively insensitive to visible light, but ultraviolet radiation can cause severe burns. Does this have anything to do with photon energies? Explain

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  2. If an electron has a wavelength, does it also have a colour?

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  3. Human skin is relatively insensitive to visible light, but ultraviolet...

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  4. Do all electrons emitted in the photoelectric effect have the same kin...

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  5. If you shine ultraviolet light on an isolated metal plate, the plate e...

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  6. Is it always true that for two sources of equal intensity, the number ...

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  7. The wave theory of radiation cannot explain………. Existence of threshold...

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  8. The photoelectros emitted by an illuminted surface have a maximum kine...

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  9. The threshold frequencies for photoemission for three metals numbered ...

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  10. Is p= E/c valid for electrons?

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  11. Photon A is from an ultraviolet tanning lamp and photon B is from a te...

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  12. Of the following statement about the photoelectric effect, which are t...

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  13. In an experiment on photoelectric effect, a photon is incident on an e...

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  14. Can we find the mass of a photon by the definition p =mv?

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  15. If the intensity of the light producing a photocurrent is doubled, how...

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  16. Should the energy of a photon be called its kinetic energy or its inte...

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  17. In an experiment on photoelectric effect, a photon is incident on an e...

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  18. The de-Broglie hypothesis predicts that a wave associated with any obj...

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  19. In the photoelectric effect, if the frequency of the radiation is belo...

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  20. The photons emitted by a source of light do not all have the same ener...

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