The Photoelectric Effect week
I noe d title sounds weird, but itz got its own significance n meaning.Well, another rollercoaster week, getting only 5 hours’ sleep at times (i hate not gettin enuf sleep!) and generally seeing tht my ‘experiments’ are proving my hypothesis correct so far..which isnt wad i hoped for. Let’s juz say i’d rather dis experiment fall flat on its face.
Neways, b4 i start talkin in more scientific terms..esl tutorial on monday went well =) was reali nervous b4 i started but well, wad can i say bout technology…handphones r reali d greatest invention of d century in my opinion. calms ur nerves n everything. dun get it? dun wori, ur not supposed to =p so i breezed thru d presentation, kept my wits about me 4d Q & A (v din plan d ques, unlike some groups) n sumhow had a brainwave or two in leading d discussion..Long live handphones!
Yeah..so i thought i started d week on a pretty good note after an agitated weekend. I thought. In retrospect it wasnt reali tht bad la. Juz tht sum ppl reali dun get it. U dun say thgs u dun mean to. Nor do u say u’re gona do A and yet u go on n do B. tht’s plain shit. Maybe i was wrong as well, i admit that. Which brings me to d title of my post 2day:
We learned photoelectric effect (introduced by einstein, thts y he got d nobel) tis week and sum of its principles were truly interesting.
" The intensity of the incident photon is unable to influence the electron emission if Energy of photon is less than Binding energy of electrons"
and…" The energy of the photon is discrete, where it is proportional to the frequency of the incident radiation"
Well, it says that each type of wave has a specific energy for its photons and if energy of photon is less than binding energy of electrons, no amount of bombardment of a particular metal surface wif d photons will produce any emission of electrons (intensity = number of photons per unit area per unit time)
What the hell am i getting at? Let’s put it this way..sometimes in life, it doesnt matter how intensely u do something, what matters sumtimes is who you are. Like mr sam says, " Don’t tell me a spotlight shone brightly on you lastnight and so you’re not feeling well today. If juz one gamma ray hit you though, u may get cancer nex year" My point is, so what if d spotlight (visible light wif intermediate photon energy) has high intensity? It still cant bloody cause any damage compared to the single gamma ray (high photon energy) which has such low intensity. Sometimes identity precedes everything else. And that sucks.
On the bright side of things though, this is one week filled wif memorable one-liners. Here’s some of them:
Sunday : "All the best for tutorial tomorrow"- from supportive Friends. Thankx!
Monday: "Where’s the climax?" - louis on my not-so melodious rendition of hoobastank’s the reason
Tuesday: "I don’t have white dots"- mr sam explaining tht he’s using black marker to draw white dots on d whiteboard
Wednesday : "This is one of those days when my mood can change from good to bad within miliseconds" - myself on my mood for d day. Followed by "Coincidence, coincidence"- louis on…[censored]
Thursday : "You know where’s d library or not?"- mr sam again. followed by "damn i missed d 1st bus again" -myself on well, missing d 1st bus.
Lol…it was fun n refreshing thinkin bout those lines. Anyway, din reali blog everything here, sum stuff r juz plain untypeable (got such word r?) till further proof is obtained, then oni my hypothesis is valid. (Alternative hypothesis, maths chapter 8 page 338)
Muz comment on louis’ line on wed tho..it amuses me(in a bad way) to see some people trying to CREATE coincidence. Yes, CREATE! And i thought all along tht coincidences r meant to be random events which happen out of chance, a case of everything falling into place. Not you holding d pieces n glueing them together. After all, coincidences jus happen- they’re part of fate.If they happen, they happen.If they don’t, too bad. There’s nth too much 2b read in2 it anyway, it oni serves as a feel-good factor at times. At times it doesnt. But some people try to create coincidences and then brainwash themselves into thinking that their actions are fate as well because the attempt was successful…
Ain’t that naive.
So yes, that’s my photoelectric effect week, a week where i’ve (hopefully) grown up juz a little bit more, and gained some laughter (tho it hurts to laugh this way) at ppl’s naivety in creating coincidences.
Ain’t this a silly week.
