In a photoelectric experiment, increasing the intensity of incident light:

In a photoelectric experiment, increasing the intensity of incident light:
  1. increases the number of photons incident and also increases the K.E. of the ejected electrons.
  2. increases the frequency of photons incident and increases the K.E. of the ejected electrons.
  3. increases the number of photons incident and the K.E. of the ejected electrons remains unchanged.
  4. increases the frequency of photons incident and the K.E. of the ejected electrons remains unchanged.

Solution

The relation between the energy of photons and the intensity of photons is, hv=IAn, where n is the number of photons, if we increase the number of photons then frequency does not change it means total energy and kinetic energy of photon remains unchanged but due to to this property the intensity of light is increased.

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