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The frequency of the incident light falling on a photosensitive metal plate is doubled, the kinetic energy of the emitted photoelectron gets: |
doubled the earlier value unchanged more than doubled less than doubled |
more than doubled |
Let K1 and K2 be the kinetic energy of photoelectrons for incident light of frequency v and 2v respectively. According to Einstein’s photoelectric equation $hv=K_1+\phi_0$ and $h2v =K_2+\phi_0$ $∴2(K_1+\phi_0)=K_2+\phi_0$ or $K_2=2K_1+\phi_0$ It means the kinetic energy of the photoelectrons becomes more than doubled. |