Wavelike Properties
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Wavelike Properties
So based on my understanding, do only atomic sized things have wavelike properties. Because I recall on Prof. Lavelle’s lecture he said any moving particle with momentum has wavelike properties. Thanks.
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Re: Wavelike Properties
In one of his video modules, Lavelle mentioned that all matter has particle and wavelike properties but only noticed for objects (like electrons) with small masses and high velocity! I hope this helps :)
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Re: Wavelike Properties
To add to the post above, while all objects have wave-like properties, we consider classical objects like baseballs to have particle-like properties since the lambda is too small to consider.
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Re: Wavelike Properties
Hi! I believe that all objects have wavelike properties but they are only noticed for very very small objects.
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Re: Wavelike Properties
The reason why we say that all objects have wavelike properties, is because all matter has wavelike properties while at the same time exhibiting particle like properties. This means that everything is this world will exhibit wavelike properties, it is just that these wavelengths are much too small to detect.
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