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Answer by Agnius Vasiliauskas for Photoelectric effect and energy levels

So my question is that, does the photoelectric effect work for only valence electrons?Impacting photon energy goes like this :$$ h\nu = E_{_{ionization}} + \frac {mv^2}{2} $$Ionization energy depends...

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Answer by anna v for Photoelectric effect and energy levels

The photoelectric effect was observed in metals.In the main model for solids , the band theory,In metals the conduction band is not empty, which means there are electrons not bound to a particular atom...

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Photoelectric effect and energy levels

The photoelectric effect is defined to strip electrons from a surface by high-frequency photons, independent of the intensity of the photons. However, each atom has electron orbitals that represent...

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