electrons

[Sophia Dinh 1D]

How do electrons have wave-like properties, but at the same time have particle-like behavior?

[Naneeta Desar 1K]

hello! I was confused on this too and I found this website that explains it very well! Hope this helps :)
https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves ... _Chemistry)/Quantum_Mechanics/09._The_Hydrogen_Atom/Atomic_Theory/Electrons_in_Atoms/Wave-Particle_Duality

[Lelija Kazlauskas 3J]

Electrons (aka light) is seen as a wave due to the fact that it can behave like a wave, in which light can reflect, diffract, etc. just like a wave. In the photoelectric effect, if light were to react exactly like a wave, simply increasing the intensity of a wave (increasing its energy) would allow for the photoelectric effect to occur. But it only occurs if the frequency of the wave increases, which increases the amount of energy a photon has.