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Understanding Matter Waves & Energy Duality: Particles as Waves & Energy Equivalence, Slides of Physics

The concept of matter waves and energy duality, where particles can exhibit wave-like and particle-like behavior. Planck's quanta, photon duality, energy duality, de broglie proposal, and the de broglie wave. It also discusses the relationship between energy, momentum, and frequency for both photons and electrons, as well as the concept of complementarity.

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Download Understanding Matter Waves & Energy Duality: Particles as Waves & Energy Equivalence and more Slides Physics in PDF only on Docsity! Matter Waves Docsity.com Photon Duality  • The photon can behave like a  wave or a particle.  – Planck’s quanta    • It behaves like a wave in  diffraction.        • It behaves like a particle in the  photoelectric effect.  V e I  md sin    hceV Docsity.com De Broglie Wave  • The de Broglie wave is based on  the momentum of the particle.  – Momentum relation for light    • Duality extends to particles with  mass.    • Moving particles have an  associated wavelength.   hcpc   hp   hmvp  mv h  Docsity.com Electron Wave  • An electron with sufficient energy  can be diffracted.    • X‐ray diffraction of a crystal is on  the order of  = 0.1 nm.  – Energy 12.4 KeV  – Momentum 12.4 KeV/c    • Electrons of similar momenta also  diffract in crystals.  Image of electron diffraction from gold crystals (MacDiarmid institute) Docsity.com Human Wave  • Find the wavelength associated  with a person of 70 kg moving at  3 m/s.    • What conditions are required for  human diffraction?  – How big of a doorway  • The de Broglie wavelength is  given by  = h/mv.  – 6.6 x 10‐34 J s / 210 kg m/s  –   = 3.1 x 10‐36 m.    • A proton is about 2 x 10‐15 m.    • The doorway would have to be  less than 10‐21 the diameter of a  proton.  – Note 1 kg m/s = 6 x 1018 eV/c  Docsity.com
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