Physics A-Level
Zinc plate and ultraviolet radiation
What Zinc plate and ultraviolet radiation means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Zinc plate and ultraviolet radiation
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Reference: OCR
When ultraviolet radiation is shone on the zinc plate, electrons are emitted from the surface, the negative charge is reduced and the leaf falls.
Topics that use Zinc plate and ultraviolet radiation
- 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
- Photoelectric emission
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