Comments on: Bit by Bit https://briankoberlein.com/2015/05/06/bit-by-bit/ Brian Koberlein Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:22:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: Philip Wilson https://briankoberlein.com/2015/05/06/bit-by-bit/#comment-5953 Fri, 09 Feb 2018 19:59:28 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=4774#comment-5953 I’ve notice Einstein keeps getting credit for recognizing that there is a maximum K.E. (E subscript K max of the emitted photo-electrons if no heating of the metal is caused by the incident photons……..

the equation ….. incident/incoming photon energy = work function of metal + maximum Kinetic energy of photo-electrons ……………… .is credited to Einstein!

]]> By: Arturo Gutierrez https://briankoberlein.com/2015/05/06/bit-by-bit/#comment-2317 Wed, 06 May 2015 15:05:45 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=4774#comment-2317 So what exactly was Einstein’s genius in this case? How he related Plack’s work to the photolectric effect? Should another physicist had made that connection would they have won the Nobel prize? Or was only an Einstein able to mathematically prove this link?

]]> By: Brian Koberlein https://briankoberlein.com/2015/05/06/bit-by-bit/#comment-2316 Wed, 06 May 2015 14:00:26 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=4774#comment-2316 Einstein’s big breakthrough was the suggestion that light really was quantized. Others had danced around the idea, looking at discrete packets of energy, but Einstein pushed for photons as a property of light.

]]> By: amirlb https://briankoberlein.com/2015/05/06/bit-by-bit/#comment-2315 Wed, 06 May 2015 13:45:55 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=4774#comment-2315 Quoting from the introduction of the paper (in the English translation): “the energy of light is distributed discontinuously in space […] it consists of a finite number of energy quanta […] which can be absorbed or emitted only as a whole”.

What part of the paper is considered as Einstein’s breakthrough? Were the calculations in the paper (of entropy and other parameters) novel? Did it make new predictions that would prove this hypothesis? Or is it making the connection between several mysteries of light, suggesting that all of them can be solved using the same idea?

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