Wave-Particle Duality and the Photoelectric Effect

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  • Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
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  • @ProfessorDaveExplains
    @ProfessorDaveExplains  6 років тому +485

    Guys! When I said that the smallest fundamental unit of energy is the Planck energy, that's totally wrong. That is a completely different parameter that is actually a macroscopic amount of energy. I confused it with the Planck time and Planck distance, so that label is being used incorrectly. Sorry!

    • @Adityasingh-pl9mc
      @Adityasingh-pl9mc 5 років тому +8

      A wave has a frequency... How can particles (photons) have frequency.

    • @Elegyforthend
      @Elegyforthend 5 років тому +4

      @@Adityasingh-pl9mc I think it's because at that time light is regarded as a wave and not a particle. not sure tho.

    • @Trypanosoma_
      @Trypanosoma_ 4 роки тому +2

      @@Adityasingh-pl9mc photons emit a vertically-oscillating electric field that are described by the corresponding wave function of the photon

    • @active-ed
      @active-ed 4 роки тому +2

      @@Adityasingh-pl9mc particle is a packet of wave..... that is why particle can have frequency

    • @active-ed
      @active-ed 4 роки тому +1

      @@Adityasingh-pl9mc particle is a packet of wave that is why particle can have frequency

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      @icybear49 4 роки тому +2

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    @zapperz2000 4 роки тому +5

    Hi Prof. Dave. Thanks for your videos. I've linked a couple of them in my astronomy class that I taught last Spring.
    With regards to the PE effect, the notion that no electrons will be emitted for photons with energy lower than the work function, no matter how intense the light is, is only true for single-photon photoemission phenomenon. Since we now have intense laser sources, we can detect multiphoton photoemission. This is where photons with energy lower than the work function can cause an electron in a band (conduction band usually) to be raised to an intermediate state. But before it can decay back to a lower state, another photon comes by and excite it to another higher state. If this final state is a vacuum state, then it has the chance to escape.
    Multiphoton photoemission technique has been used in the study of materials, and also is a common phenomenon in particle accelerator photoinjectors. None of these means that Einstein's original model is wrong. It is just that we now know that the standard photoelectric effect is specific to the single-photon photoemission.
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    Quantum mechanics unveiled a mind-bending reality: particles like photons and electrons blur the lines between waves and particles, showcasing a dual nature known as wave-particle duality. In experiments, these entities exhibit wave-like behaviors-interference, diffraction-similar to undulating waves, yet they also display discrete, localized impacts akin to particles. Attempts to confine them to a single definition falter; they exist in a state of quantum uncertainty, oscillating between wave-like and particle-like attributes based on experimental setups or observation methods. This profound concept revolutionized physics, dismantling classical notions and propelling us into a universe governed by probabilities rather than certainties.

    • @lepidoptera9337
      @lepidoptera9337 5 місяців тому

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      @stupidteous 5 місяців тому

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      @lepidoptera9337 5 місяців тому

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  • @fabiomariaantoniali3096
    @fabiomariaantoniali3096 2 роки тому

    Hi Dave, the video is very effective! Actually Einstein used the term "energy quanta" in its 1905 paper, whereas the term "photon" was introduced in 1926 by G.N.Lewis.

  • @user-lb8qx8yl8k
    @user-lb8qx8yl8k 11 місяців тому

    Dave one small objection if I may, but it might be a bit misleading to say that light "is a wave and particle AT THE SAME TIME."
    One of my QM texts (I can find out which one if you'd like) devoted a paragraph or so to explain that a quantum entity may exhibit both wave properties and particle properties, but never will it exhibit both wave and particle properties simultaneously. I asked gpt-4 to explain the concept of wave-particle duality and here's the relevant part:
    "The wave and particle aspects of quantum entities are complementary, meaning they cannot be observed simultaneously; observing one necessitates that the other is not being observed."
    I trust this is true because, like I said, one of my texts made this very point.
    The double slit experiment is a good example. Electrons exhibit wave properties when not being observed and particle properties when being observed. That just blows me away!!
    Even in spite of this and the thing about planck energy you noted here in the comment section, this is a very clear explanation of the photoelectric effect and the works of Planck and Einstein.

    • @lepidoptera9337
      @lepidoptera9337 5 місяців тому

      Yes, that was complete bullshit. ;-)

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    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  7 років тому

      thanks kindly! right now i'm focusing on biology and math so no more organic chemistry in the works, but maybe one day!

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    @xgg4017 3 роки тому +1

    is planck energy the same as Planck's constant?

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  • @gretchenevans8132
    @gretchenevans8132 3 роки тому +1

    At timestamp 2:54, you say that the v in the equation is the frequency of the photon--why is it marked as a v instead of the f that was used earlier? I have been struggling with understanding the whole velocity vs. frequency thing.

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  3 роки тому +1

      So it actually should be the greek letter nu, which looks very much like a v. It can be a little confusing, and I should have just used the greek letter here.

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    @chadley 6 років тому +1

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    @funkydrummerplatypus 8 років тому +2

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    @sanjuansteve 3 роки тому

    Since we know we’re in a sea of undetectable dark matter but don’t know exactly where it’s distributed and since everything in the universe from electrons to solar systems is in orbit with something else, why isn’t the first assumption of how or why a photon acts like a particle but also as a “wave packet” for every physics student to think every photon might be in orbit with a dark matter particle pulling it into a polarizable axial or helical apparent wave as they travel?

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  • @TomHendricksMusea
    @TomHendricksMusea 2 роки тому

    Ask an astronomer "How are photons created or destroyed", talks about quantum jumps.
    Q. The only interactions a photon has are to be created or destroyed.
    My idea is that the photon pops up as an electron positron pair that power the quantum leap or releases a photon.
    That means that the leaping electron interacts with the electron positron pair. One electron and positron annihilate which powers the left over electron to jump.
    That means that in space time photons are always electron positron pairs.

  • @ASTalal299
    @ASTalal299 7 місяців тому

    If we consider the Lummer and Pringsheum Intensity Distribution Diagram of Black Body Radiations can we conclude that higher frequency radiations want higher temperature to be radiated from a Black body i.e Frequency of the Black body radiations is directly proportional to the temperature of the Black body and for a particular temperature a particular frequency of radiations are emmitted?

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    @AroundTowniCome 5 років тому +1

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  • @yashpatel4683
    @yashpatel4683 3 роки тому +1

    But number of electrons ejected is proportional to the intensity / brightness of the light . ( I just read it in my journal ) .

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    @vijgenboom2843 2 роки тому

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    @conormcgregor875 7 років тому +2

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  • @PP-op1ql
    @PP-op1ql 2 роки тому

    Hi :). I have got question. Maybe not about photoelectric effect, but about wave and atom. If electron is wave it should propagate in some medium . But in atoms there is only electron (outside nucleus) and he is also particle. So, how it's going? Electron propagate in itself?

  • @ahmedumar7117
    @ahmedumar7117 2 роки тому

    Hey I think you may have made a mistake in the formula c=f x wavelength (can’t find its symbol here), I think you wrote v instead of wavelengths

  • @das_it_mane
    @das_it_mane 3 роки тому

    Is this really a duality or are particles just small wave packets that "appear" to be particles?

  • @laxmipuranam4848
    @laxmipuranam4848 7 років тому +1

    it is a great explanation

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    “Confused? You should be” 🤣✋🏾

  • @azeemhassan7281
    @azeemhassan7281 2 роки тому

    Great video....But I have a confusion....What if more than one photons collide with the same electron?? Does the kinetic energy of the electron increase then?? Obviously, It can't be. That's the whole point of photoelectric effect. But why not??