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49. What is meant by the threshold frequency of the photoelectric effect?

This is the minmum frequency of incident light required for electrons to be emitted.
According to quantum mechanics, the energy of a photon is related to its frequency by the relation

E = h f where h is the plancks constant. Thus this corresponds to the minimum energy of the photon required to knock out the electron.

This energy corresponds to the work function of the material
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