Wave-particle Duality
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Wave-particle duality means particles exhibit?
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Both wave-like and particle properties
- 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.
- Particle Evidence: Examples include the Photoelectric effect and Compton scattering, where light behaves as packets of energy (photons).
- Wave Evidence: Examples include Interference and Diffraction, where light and even electrons (Davisson-Germer experiment) exhibit wave-like patterns.
- Unification: De Broglie unified these views with the relation λ=h/p.
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- Subject
- physics
- Chapter
- dual nature
- Topic
- wave-particle duality
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Year
- 2025
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