Physical Chemistry 2, Part 1:  The Photoelectric Effect
Channel: StrangerThanFic
Date: 17/05/2022

Today we'll start a new course!  This is the second half of Physical Chemistry, and deals with quantum mechanics and the behavior of electrons and atoms.  We'll start by looking at the photoelectric effect, in which photons are able to knock electrons from the surface of a piece of metal.  It's explanation was developed by everybody's favorite physicist, Albert Einstein!  It has some unexpected features, and that was one of the reasons physicists realized that classical mechanics was not a complete description of nature.  Quantum mechanics arose from our search for a better description!