Question

If the frequency of this beam is increased while the intensity is held constant, does the number of electrons ejected per second from the metal surface increase, decrease, or stay the same?

Answer 1

Answer:

if the intensity of photons is constant then number of ejected electrons will remain same

Explanation:

As per photoelectric effect we know that when light of sufficient frequency fall on the surface of metal then electrons get ejected out of the surface with certain kinetic energy

Here the energy of photons is used to eject out the electrons from metal surface and to give the kinetic energy to the ejected electrons

so we have

$h\nu = W + KE$

here W = work function of metal which shows the energy required to eject out electrons from metal surface

KE = kinetic energy of ejected electrons

now if we increase the frequency of the photons that incident on the metal surface then in that case the incident energy will increase

So the electrons will eject out with more kinetic energy while if the number of photon is constant or the intensity of photons is constant then number of ejected electrons will remain same