Example 1 · difficulty 2/5
Light of wavelength 400 nm falls on a metal whose work function is 1.9 eV. Taking hc = 1240 eV nm, the magnitude of the stopping potential needed to just stop the fastest photoelectrons is:
- A. 0.8 V
- B. 1.9 V
- C. 1.2 V
- D. 3.1 V