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Statement I: Photoemission from a photos...

Statement I: Photoemission from a photosensitive metal is possible only if the incident radiation has a frequency above the threshold frequency.
Statement II : In photoelectric emission, the maximum energy of photoelectrons increases with increasing intensity of incident light.

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A. Statement-I is false, statement-II is true.

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Statement-I is true, statement-II is false.

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Statement-I is true, statement-II is true. Statement-II is correct explanation of statement-I

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Statement-I is true, statement-II is true and statement - II is not correct explanation of statement-I.

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