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Page 297
... effect is the basis of operation of such devices as the television camera , photographic light meters , image in- tensifiers for telescopes , cells for the conversion of solar energy , and detectors for all kinds of spectrometry ...
... effect is the basis of operation of such devices as the television camera , photographic light meters , image in- tensifiers for telescopes , cells for the conversion of solar energy , and detectors for all kinds of spectrometry ...
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... effects . Photovoltaic effect . The photovoltaic effect consists in the generation of an electromotive force as a consequence of the absorption of radiation ; that is to say , a current will flow across the junction of two dissimilar ...
... effects . Photovoltaic effect . The photovoltaic effect consists in the generation of an electromotive force as a consequence of the absorption of radiation ; that is to say , a current will flow across the junction of two dissimilar ...
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... effect was exhibited inside an electrified hollow metal container and had bril- liantly inferred from this similarity that the inverse- square law ( of gravity ) must hold for electricity as well . In a series of painstaking memoirs ...
... effect was exhibited inside an electrified hollow metal container and had bril- liantly inferred from this similarity that the inverse- square law ( of gravity ) must hold for electricity as well . In a series of painstaking memoirs ...
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