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LECTURE 31
goals and outline
lecture title
Waves are Particles: Einstein, the Photoelectric Effect
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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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Professor Bernice Durand, bdurand@theory3.physics.wisc.edu.
Revised November 5, 1997.
Content © 1997, Bernice Durand
Images and layout © 1997, Shane Hamilton
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