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Photoelectric Experiment: Intensity, Stopping Potential & Graphs

Which of the following options represent the variation of photoelectric current with property of light shown on the x-axis?

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Answer: (c)

  1. Above threshold, photocurrent ∝\propto intensity (number of photons): graph A is correct, B is wrong.
  2. Photocurrent does not increase with frequency; frequency only changes the kinetic energy. So C and D are wrong.
  3. So the answer is (c) A only.
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