wave-particle duality

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Wave-particle duality means particles exhibit?

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1. **Concept**: Wave-particle duality suggests that every entity in the universe (light, electrons, protons, etc.) behaves as both a particle and a wave depending on the experimental setup.
2. **Particle Evidence**: Examples include the Photoelectric effect and Compton scattering, where light behaves as packets of energy (photons).
3. **Wave Evidence**: Examples include Interference and Diffraction, where light and even electrons (Davisson-Germer experiment) exhibit wave-like patterns.
4. **Unification**: De Broglie unified these views with the relation $\lambda = h/p$.

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Light exhibits wave and particle nature evidenced by respectively: