Month: September 2022

CONNECTIONS between the Compton effect and the photoelectric effect. A summary. https://lnkd.in/e5yN52r4 View in LinkedIn

“COMPTON scattering, the incident gamma ray photon is deflected by an orbital electron in the absorbing material. Part of the energy carried by the incident photon is transferred to the target electron in the atom, causing it to be ejected from the atom.In photoelectric process, an incident photon transfer its energy to an orbital electron, causing it to be ejected from the atom.” https://lnkd.in/e5yN52r4 View in LinkedIn

THE PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT has resulted, directly and indirectly, in the awards of 5 Nobel Prizes (Planck, Einstein, Millikan, Siegbahn), as well as striking open the heart if the quantum world. https://lnkd.in/eDZvjevE View in LinkedIn

PHOTO ELECTRONS. “Electrons emitted in this way can be called photo electrons.” https://lnkd.in/eDZvjevE View in LinkedIn

LIGHT + MATTER. “The photoelectric effect is the emission of electrons or other free carriers when light shines on a material.” https://lnkd.in/eDZvjevE View in LinkedIn

“Can machines think? We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.” (AM Turing). https://lnkd.in/eWj_kHSV View in LinkedIn

Rethinking the amount of summer confetti, I am inclined to think that there is a large degree of heat stress contributing new leaves to the litter. View in LinkedIn

REASON. “According to classical electromagnetic theory, this effect can be ascribed to the transfer of energy from the light to an electron. From this perspective, a change in the intensity of light would induce changes in the kinetic energy of the electrons emitted from the material.” https://lnkd.in/eDZvjevE View in LinkedIn

KEY LAG. “Additionally, according to this theory, a sufficiently dim light would be anticipated to show a time lag between the initial shining of its light and the subsequent emission of an electron.” https://lnkd.in/eDZvjevE View in LinkedIn

DISCREPANCY. “Yet, the experimental results did not correlate with either of the two predictions made by classical theory.” https://lnkd.in/eDZvjevE View in LinkedIn