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LECTURE 31
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lecture title

    Waves are Particles: Einstein, the Photoelectric Effect

text pages

    Ch 15, pp 183-186.

lecture goals

  • Learn another example of a phenomenon explainable only if light has energy E=hf.
  • Learn the details of the photoelectric effect: light in, electricity (electrons) out.
  • Learn the energy diagram which shows Einstein's explanation of the photoelectric effect pictorially.
  • Learn a dab about Millikan, who measured h and e.
  • Learn the 5 fundamental constants G, c, e, h, k.
  • Start to understand the one big concept of Unit 3, quantization.

outline of lecture

    1. The Photoelectric Effect

    2. Einstein's Explanation: the Photon with E=hf

    3. 5 Constants and 1 Concept

quotes

Anglo-Saxons weren't meant to understand relativity.

-- Ernest Rutherford


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