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Emission and Absorption Spectra

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State True or False.
In a photo-electric emission process, the maximum energy of the photo-electrons increases with increasing intensity of the incident light.

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Solution

The correct option is B False
As we know,
$K E = h v - h v_{o} = h v - W$ , W is work function.
So as the frequency of incident photon increases, kinetic energy of photoelectron increases and it is independent of intensity of light.

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