Physics Bucharest 2017
Photons: photoelectric effect
• A photon is absorbed by an atomic electron, which is rejected from the atom • The process needs the electron to be bound • Kinetic energy of the ejected photoelectron KE is equal to the incident photon energy E 0 - the binding energy of the orbital electron F : KE = E o - F
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