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Question
In the case of photoelectric effect experiment, explain the following facts, giving reasons.
The photoelectric current increases with increase of intensity of incident light.
Solution
The intensity represents the number of photons, if the frequency of the incident light is more than the threshold frequency then more intensity will make ensure that more number of photons are falling over the metal surface and more photoelectrons will be emitted that increases the photoelectric current.
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