Photoelectric Effect Explained in Simple Words for Beginners

Photoelectric effect occurs when electromagnetic radiation above the threshold frequency of the given metallic surface, strikes the surface and releases electrons from it. This happens because light is made of massless particles called photons, which possess a certain amount of energy. When these photons strike the surface, they knock electrons off it; we call these photoelectron.
Just because a light ray has a high intensity doesn't mean that it will cause the photoelectric effect. It can only happen if the frequency of the light rays is equal to or greater than a given value-known as the threshold frequency-of the metal. In this video, we have explained the photoelectric effect, threshold frequency and the work function in simple words
Table of Content
Introduction: The Photoelectric Effect 0:00
Factors Influencing Photoelectron Emission: Intensity and Frequency 1:11
Work Function and Its Role in Photoelectron Emission 1:45
Historical Evolution: Becquerel to Einstein's Nobel Triumph 2:29
Solar Power Revolution: Photoelectric Effect in Photovoltaic Cells 2:49
Beyond Solar Power: Diverse Technological Applications 3:40
Conclusion: The Quantum Elegance of the Photoelectric Effect 4:06
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bro you saved me literally i ve watched 3 teachers explain this and I couldnt get it until i made it here THANKS A MILLION

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[@SlonBobar-nt2jn]

In fact, when light hits metal, part of the light is reflected, and what is not reflected accelerates the movement of electrons, heating the metal, but does not knock them out. After a certain heating, the metal goes into a liquid state, but does not lose any electrons

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[@VinayVanarashi]

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[@pruthvirajingale991]

Will a blue light always kick off an electron according to photo electric effect as it has highest frequency

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[@SlonBobar-nt2jn]

На самом деле при попадании света на метал часть света отражается, а та что не отразилась ускоряет движение электронов нагревая металл, но не выбивает их. После определённого нагрева металл переходит в жидкое состояние, но никаких электронов не теряет

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[@acdece.mc21]

Does it mean when we watch our devices, we eject of electrons of our eyes

[@TheScientificSpot]

If our eyes have less work function than the Radiation emitted from the device

[@lepidoptera9337]

You were doing well until you said that light is made of massless particles. That is simply not the case, no matter how many times people repeat it. Light is a quantum field that can only exchange quanta of energy that carry an angular momentum of one Planck unit. It's the angular momentum quantization together with angular momentum conservation that makes it look like material particles are involved. The human mind likes to imagine that discrete conserved quantities have a material carrier. We made this mistake twice before in form of the phlogiston and the aether. This is the third time that this fallacy come around. One would think that humans can learn from past mistakes, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

[@mrdefaultynoob]

Wrong, photons are massless

[@lepidoptera9337]

@@mrdefaultynoob Light is NOT made of particles. ;-)

[@mrdefaultynoob]

​@@lepidoptera9337 it's made of photons

[@aditya__chavan]

You MAY be right I'm not sure but this concept is for class 11(highschool) students in my country, that's the reason

[@lepidoptera9337]

@@aditya__chavan What concept? Energy, momentum and angular momentum? You should be well acquainted with all of those by 11th grade. All you need to remember in addition is that "A photon is a small amount of energy.". That's eight words. An 11th grader should be able to do that, right? By the time you are given this information you must have read millions of words. If you want to go all the way to grad student level physics, then you can remember "A photon is the smallest amount of energy, momentum and angular momentum that the electromagnetic field can exchange irreversibly with another system.". That's a bit more precise but it doesn't give you all that much more ontology.

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[@nevanashad6654]

Question: Where do tye electrons go to after gettting emergy transfered from photons. I am actually still a gcse student,just like these type of stuff, so i dont understand much of all of this.

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I think they'll stay in atmosphere and get into atoms of gases

[@Bpr99]

What about that hole which get generated after loosing an electron, how it get's it's electron back ? 3:20 Or that excited e- again transfers the energy ( to the next atom's e- ) & comes back to it's position again, from where it was excited initially...is this the case ?

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[@amirsalah2244]

There is something wrong here because if the light has a high intensity, it will knock out more electrons because a high intensity means more photons, and that means more electrons will come out of the metal.

[@prachitiwari890]

No It doesn't depend upon intensity As for photoelectric effect you need minimum amount of fixed energy required to remove electron from different metal surfaces and it is different for different metal High intensity doesn't mean there will be more electron coming out of metal surface It depends on metal and the collisions occuring bw electrons May might be a case where the electron absorb energy but do not come out at all because the energy absorb may be lost in collisions occuring inside the metal surface

[@amirsalah2244]

ohhh, so you mean it will not remove more energy because of its metal nature? If that is the case, I think it will knock out more electrons in a time interval.@@prachitiwari890

[@potatoagent]

⁠@@prachitiwari890it’s like if you have a glass with water but isn’t full, you shake it with lesser than enough energy and it only rotates and swirls inside the glass(internal collisions), but only when you have more than the minimum amount of shaking the water gets enough energy to fall out the glass. That’s the idea right?

[@warmachineuk]

Such quantisation of light into particles, as opposed to the wave model, led to quantum mechanics, a paradigm Einstein didn’t like.

[@user-hu8uu2uh9e]

​@@prachitiwari890I think you are wrong We need a light of the correct frequency to eject the electrons, but at that point if time the intensity doesn't matter bcz the min frequency requirement is not full-filled But when we have a light of enough frequency, then surely enough the light with more intensity will eject more electrons

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