Matter Waves
Summary
- Wave-particle duality
- Electromagnetic radiation…
- is an electromagnetic wave
- is a stream of particles (photons)
- has both wave and particle properties
- Matter…
- is built from elementary particles (molecules, atoms, electrons, protons, neutrons, quarks, etc.)
- is a probability wave
- has both particle and wave properties
- Electromagnetic radiation…
- The momentum and wavelength are inversely proportional.
p = h λ - This equation is true for all particles.