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Experiment No: Date:

Determination of Planck’s constant using LEDs


Apparatus:

0-10 V power supply, a one way key, a rheostat, a digital milliammeter, a digital voltmeter, a
1 K resistor and different known wavelength LED’s (Light-Emitting Diodes).

Materials:

 Four LEDs emitting coloured light – one each of red, orange, green and blue. Choose LEDs
with a clear, colorless casing surrounding the LED, so that the color of the light comes from
the device itself, not from the coloured casing.
 9 V batteries.

 Two multimeters (one to be used as a voltmeter and the other as an ammeter).

 1 kΩ potentiometer or rheostat.

Procedure:

1. Connect the ammeter in series with the LED to measure the current through it, and connect
the voltmeter in parallel to the LED to measure the
Typical
voltage across it. The applied voltage can be changed by
LED color wavelength,
using the potentiometer or rheostat. λ (nm)
2. Change the voltage in steps of 0.05 V from 0 V to 3 V,
and measure the resulting electrical current. Note that Red 620
when the current flowing through the LED is small, the
LED might not light up, but the ammeter can still measure
the current. To protect the LED, take care to keep the Yellow 570
current below 5 mA.

3. For each LED, plot a graph of current against voltage. On Blue 460
each graph, find the straight line of ‘best fit’ to join up the
points that slope up from the x-axis. If the points lie close
violet 400
to the line, this shows that a linear relationship holds
between the applied voltage and the current in this region
of the graph

4. Finally, determine the activation voltage (Va) from the collected data. This is the point at
which the current begins to increase linearly with voltage. It can be read off the graph by
extrapolating the straight line representing the linear response region backwards until it
intercepts the x-axis. Students can do this visually using a ruler, or mathematically by
applying linear regression to the experimental data points in the linear region.

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Observation table

(i) Color: Red (ii) Color: Yellow

Sr No Voltage Current Sr No Voltage Current

iii) Color: Blue (iv) Color: Violet

Sr No Voltage Current Sr No Voltage Current

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Experiment No: Date:

Plot graph between V vs I for different color.

Find out cut off voltage from the graph.

Cut off voltage and wavelength:

Sr No Color Cut off voltage Wavelength (unit)


(unit)

Plot a graph between vs activation voltage.

Find the slope

Calculation:

Results:

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Error:

9. Conclusion:

10. Precaution

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