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Photoelectric Effect The process in which visible light, x rays, or gamma rays strike matter and cause an electron to be ejected. The ejected electron is called a photoelectron. The photoelectric effe... Read more
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Photoelectric Effect The process in which visible light, x rays or gamma rays incident on matter, cause an electron to be ejected. The ejected electron is called a photoelectron. The photoelectric eff... Read more
551 words, approx. 2 pages
Photoelectric Effect During the years 1887 and 1888, German physicist Heinrich Rudolph Hertz conducted a series of experiments to evaluate James Clerk Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic waves. The ex... Read more