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THE ELECTRON


  1. the kinetic energy gained by an electron in accelerating through a potential difference V.

  2. where E is the energy of a photon, h is Planck’s constant and f is the frequency of the photon.

  3. where E is the energy of a photon, h is Planck’s constant and  is the wavelength of the photon.

  4. where  is the work function (the minimum energy required to just free an electron from a metal), h is Planck’s constant and  is the minimum frequency of light which will liberate an electron from a metal.

  5. where hf is the energy of an incident photon,  is the work function of a metal and  is the maximum kinetic energy of the resulting photo-electron.