In a photo-electric emission process, the maximum energy of the photo-electrons increases with increasing intensity of the incident light.
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As we know, KE=hv−hvo=hv−W, W is work function. So as the frequency of incident photon increases, kinetic energy of photoelectron increases and it is independent of intensity of light.
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