The Photoelectric Effect

Why light can knock electrons out of a metal — but only above a certain frequency. The experiment that established the idea of the photon and won Einstein his Nobel Prize.

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Table of contents

  1. 01

    A Phenomenon That Defies Classical Physics

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    Quantifying and Exploiting the Effect