Question

You illuminate the surface of some metal with green laser and observe the photocurrent. If you decrease the intensity of laser, the stopping potential will

Answer 1

Remain the same.

Step-by-step explanation:

The kinetic energy of the ejected electrons, and thus the resulting photocurrent, does not depend on the intensity of the incident radiation. Instead, it depends on the frequency. So since the stopping potential is used to reduce the photocurrent to zero and the photocurrent does not depend on the intensity, the stopping potential remains the same.