{"id":417496,"date":"2017-06-08T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=727ad4adc860cf3cfd520802930b21bd"},"modified":"2017-06-08T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T23:00:00","slug":"misleading-points-in-the-teaching-of-millikans-experiment-on-the-photoelectric-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=417496","title":{"rendered":"Misleading points in the teaching of Millikan\u2019s experiment on the photoelectric effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The photoelectric effect is a fundamental subject taught as a part of physics courses in both high<br \/>\nschools and universities. It is a phenomenon relating to the ejection of electrons from a metal<br \/>\nsurface by the action of light (or electromagnetic radiation). Some of the textbooks commonly used<br \/>\nin those courses contain a crucial conceptual error concerning the meaning of stopping potential in<br \/>\nMillikan&#8217;s arrangement of the photoelectric effect. In this paper, I point to this error, detail an<br \/>\nexplanation of the error by explaining the actual meaning of stopping potential and offer some<br \/>\nexperiments to clarify it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photoelectric effect is a fundamental subject taught as a part of physics courses in both high<br \/>\nschools and universities. It is a phenomenon relating to the ejection of electrons from a metal<br \/>\nsurface by the action of light (or electromagnetic radi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-417496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}