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This explanation doesn't make sense:
Wineglasses only break at the specific frequency (well, a range of frequencies), and if you raise the frequency too much, it'll stop resonating and won't break anymore.
So if we saw that metals emitted photons only when light was at a specific frequency, resonance would make sense. But what we actually see is that metals emit photons only when light is at or above a certain frequency, without an upper bound on the frequency that will cause photoemission. That simply isn't resonance, not for wine glasses or mercury or any of the other examples you give.
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I wanted to make a 3D animation to explain this part better.
The wine-glass analogy is indeed confusing.
Below I will try to explain resonance of light and the electron-shell. And compare this to the Photon-model. I hope this will be clearer.
In atomic theories, the electrons of atoms are modeled as rings (Bohr) or as clouds or as probability waves (Quantum Mechanics).
In atomic scanning experiments we see either (1) spheres or (2) almost empty space. I picked the sphere model without good explanation.
In the photo-electric effect the light-wave is very large compared to the atom. The electron-shell causes a dielectric effect. This means that the center of the electric charge of the atom shifts up and down. This resonates with the light. It is why a prism can give us the light-spectrum
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What happens at the exact resonance frequency? - The electrons start to move to a different orbit (or different electron-shell).
Depending on the circumstances, these electrons can then move away from the atom, or from the surface of a material.
With gas atoms we can calculate and observe the electron-bands that relate to certain frequencies. This gives the emission spectrum bands.
With solid materials you can get a wide range of resonance frequencies. So if light is causing the release of an electron, the additional energy can also add kinetic energy to this electron.
So the photo-electric effect is just resonance. And it works differently if you have a solid or a gas.
Roughly described, Einstein's model of the photo-electric effect is more like light-bullets that shoot electron-particles out of orbit.
The spectral lines of gas show how this model fails. The gas only reacts to the certain frequencies of the light, and higher frequencies simply pass through.
According to the Einstein the higher frequencies should give more kinetic energy to the atoms. Which is not true in gas.
Light also transfers momentum via dielectric reactions, not via "photons". Explained in this video Why light has momentum even without mass?. Which is why light can also be used to hold small objects in space. example