When light of sufficiently high frequency is to illuminate a typical metal surface, a photoelectron emitted moves away with a velocity of 1.0 x 10 ms-I . Calculate the wavelength with which photoelectron moves.
Compton effect
The incoming photons' energy must be in the range of an X-ray frequency to generate the Compton effect. The electron does not lose enough energy that reduces the wavelength of scattered photons towards the visible spectrum. As a result, with visible lights, the Compton effect is missing.
Recoil Velocity
The amount of backward thrust or force experienced by a person when he/she shoots a gun in the forward direction is called recoil velocity. This phenomenon always follows the law of conservation of linear momentum.
When light of sufficiently high frequency is to illuminate a typical
metal surface, a photoelectron emitted moves away with a velocity of 1.0 x
10 ms-I
. Calculate the wavelength with which photoelectron moves.
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