Clarification on particle vs wave properties
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Clarification on particle vs wave properties
Can someone clarify or give examples of what the particle properties of an electron are and what its wavelike properties are? I feel like there are certain experiments that show each but I'm confused on what these properties are.
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Re: Clarification on particle vs wave properties
The main property of waves that I understood was diffraction patterns displayed when electrons passed through a crystal. It might help to look up a picture or diagram of this also.
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Re: Clarification on particle vs wave properties
I think that many things have wavelike properties but they aren't really detectable such as when they are smaller than 10^-15 and then you say they have more particle like properties
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Re: Clarification on particle vs wave properties
Because electrons are quantized (have fixed locations) and since light can interfere and diffract it can be said that light has wave like properties. Photoelectric effect (shows that when light is shone onto a metal surface, electrons could be ejected) shows the particle side of the duality for light.
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