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In recent times, the development of time-dependent methods have enhanced the diverse study of many body problems involving the slowing down of charged particles either in matters or gases[ref.] The time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) on the other hand has enjoyed much consideration owing to its electron dynamics both self-consistency and non-perturbative way. [put more paper references here].  Most recently Correa {\em et al}\cite{Correa_2012} have reported the role of radiation damage in ion-solid interactions. They have shown that the electronic excitations due to molecular dynamics are quite different from the adiabatic outcome. The inclusion of non adiabatic effects in real calculations remains a challenging problem even today. Schleife {\em et al} have calculated\cite{Schleife_2015} the electronic stopping by H and He projectile including non-adiabatic interactions employing first principles descriptions. TIt was observed that role of off-channeling trajectories enhances the agreement with the experimental results. Using a quantal method based on TDDFT, Quijada {\em et al}tim\cite{Quijada_2007} al}\cite{Quijada_2007}  have studied the energy loss of protons and anti-protons moving inside metalic Al and obtained good results for the projectile-target energy transfer over a wider energy range. Recently Uddin {\em et al}\cite{Alfaz_Uddin_2013} have calculated stopping cross sections for various media with atomic number Z=2 to 100 using realistic electron density with four fitted parameters and obtained close agreement (\sim 15\%) with the SRIM data. However, their parametrized model, explains the projectile energy loss in various stopping media reasonably well. We report here an application of the TDDFT that embodies a plane-wave basis set that represent accurately the electron dynamics\cite{Correa_2012}\cite{Schleife_2012}\cite{2014}(put prl, 39,40) for proton impact collision of Cu surface. We have tested the strength of this method to evaluate the electronic stopping $\mathrm(S_e)$. Our findings are compared with those due to stopping and range of ions in matter (SRIM) as well as available experimental values.