Physics A-Level
Photoelectric emission
What Photoelectric emission means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Photoelectric emission
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Reference: OCR
The emission of electrons from a metal surface when electromagnetic radiation of sufficiently high frequency is incident on it.
Topics that use Photoelectric emission
- The photoelectric effect (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Conservation of energy in photon absorption
- Independence of KEmax from intensity
- Intensity
- Intensity as photons per second
- Maximum kinetic energy
- One-to-one interaction
- Photoelectric current
- Photon
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