Photoelectric Experiment: Intensity, Stopping Potential & Graphs
A beam of light falls on a metal surface such that photo-electrons are generated. If power of the light source starts to decrease linearly with time , then variation of the photocurrent and magnitude of the stopping potential with time is best represented by:
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Answer: (b)
- Photocurrent number of photons per second power, so falls linearly with .
- Stopping potential depends only on frequency, which is unchanged, so stays constant.
- So the answer is (b).