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The stopping potential necessary to reduce the photoelectric current of zero

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directly proprotional to wavelength of incident light.

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uniformly increases with the wavelength of incident light.

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directly proportional to frequency of incident light.

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uniformly increases with the frequency of incident light.

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`eV_(s) = hv - phi`
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