No Time Lag in the Photoelectric Effect

• Autores: Paul Gluck, Bernd Saering
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 48, Nº. 5, 2010, págs. 285-286
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The photoelectric effect was discovered in the 19th century by Heinrich Hertz. It is interesting to note that the same scientist showed experimentally the wave nature of light, and thereby vindicated Maxwells wave theory, and discovered the effect in which light shows corpuscular behavior. This paper describes a simple demonstration, enabling one to show the absence of a time lag in the photoelectric effect to an accuracy of a microsecond.