Intermediate & Advanced Laboratory

"Experiment is the sole judge of scientific 'truth'"
- Richard Feynman -

The Photoelectric Effect

Quantum Mechanics
for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his explanation of the photoelectric effect

-Justification for the bestowment of the 1921 Nobel prize in physics upon Albert Einstein

In this experiment you will probe one of the fundamental ways that the electromagnetic force interacts with matter. In this classic experiment you will observe how photons of different energies interact with matter.