photoelectric
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of or pertaining to photoelectricity
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The sense in which an automatic door "understands instructions" from its photoelectric cell is not at all the sense in which I understand English.
the photoelectric effect
Frequency-dependence of luminiscence p. 276f., photoelectric effect section 1.4 in citation The phrase "no matter how intense" refers to intensities below approximately 10 13 W/cm 2 at which point perturbation theory begins to break down.
Even after experiments showed that Einstein's equations for the photoelectric effect were accurate, resistance to the idea of photons continued, since it appeared to contradict Maxwell's equations, which were well-understood and verified.
Baird achieved this, where other inventors had failed, by obtaining a better photoelectric cell and improving the signal conditioning from the photocell and the video amplifier.
Following Max Planck 's solution in 1900 to the black-body radiation problem (reported 1859), Albert Einstein offered a quantum-based theory to explain the photoelectric effect (1905, reported 1887).