Light from a hydrogen discharge tube is incident on the cathode of a photoelectric cell the work function of the cathode surface is 4.2 eV. In order to reduce the photo-current to zero the voltage of the anode relative to the cathode must be made
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B
For hydrogen atom, 
Potential at anode 
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