// Example 3.4 // Computation for percentage of electrons leaving a tungstan filament which can surmount a barrier of height 1eV// // Page no.78 clc; clear; close; //Given data ; Vr=1; VT=2700/11600;//VT=T/11600 //Calculation for percentage of electrons leaving a tungstan filament at 2700 degree K// P1=(exp(-Vr/VT))*100;//P1=I/Ith //Hence only about 1.4% of the electrons have surface-directed energies in excess of 1eV// //Displaying the result in command window printf('\n Percentage of electrons leaving a tungstan filament which can surmount a barrier of height 1eV = %0.1f percent',P1); //Answers are varying due to round off error//