Recent questions in Wave Particle Duality

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What is a matter wave? What is its physical significance? What type of wave is it?

asked Feb 14, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by diydoc

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Are there two waves in the double slit experiment or is the diffraction pattern simply the quantum field (medium) causing a cohered wave to land where it does?

asked Feb 14, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by M.I.G.

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How would a Bohm type idea of pilot waves guiding particles actually differ from that of fields producing excitations? Are they mathematically incompatible ideas?

asked Feb 13, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by haystack

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If a particle-in-a-box wavefunction changes from a complex sinusoidal wave to a real decaying function on entering the region of potential (tunnelling), is it still continuous? Doesn't the complex part of the function abruptly end?

asked Feb 13, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by Sean_ork

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In the double slit experiment, when using single particles, at what particle size does the wave behavior disappear?

asked Feb 13, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by lilyp

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Could a human eye make the wave function collapse in the double slit experiment? Or are the particles too small to really interact with a retina?

asked Feb 13, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by Will Mainwaring

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If according to quantum physics all matter is waves, can we change one object into another object/material by changing the frequency/amplitude of the wave?

asked Feb 12, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by LeroyHarrison

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Does Young's double slit experiment prove wave-particle duality? If so, how does it prove the wave properties? How does it show the particle properties of light?

asked Feb 12, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by ian anderson (2.6k points)

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How does the width of the slit affect the interference in Young’s double slit experiment?

asked Feb 12, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by CrystalScribe

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What happens when a wave interferes with another wave? Why is this crucial to understanding the wave-particle duality?

asked Feb 12, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by decorator A1

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What would be the outcome if you shot single particles of anti matter through the double slit experiment?

asked Feb 12, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by Ontheway

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At what scale do particles cease to act like waves?

asked Feb 11, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by enat

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Would a positron have the same diffraction pattern in the double-slit experiment?

asked Feb 11, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by meady

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Can matter be a wave and a particle at the same time?

asked Feb 10, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by Glad its Friday

+288 votes

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Photons behave like waves and particles. what does this mean?

asked Feb 10, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by geewar

+25 votes

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What is light? Is it a particle or a wave?

asked Feb 10, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by CelestialPulse

+276 votes

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Is time dilation like a wave function collapse?

asked Jan 20, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by Amo Jeer

+27 votes

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What causes particles to come back at their original position after hitting the adjacent particle in a sound wave?

asked Jan 20, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by markimark

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Does phase difference only apply to coherent waves?

asked Jan 19, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by ginger tuffs

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The wave function is said to collapse into a particle upon measurement or observation, which means that the observation occurs before the collapse; so what is being observed if there is not yet a particle to observe?

asked Jan 19, 2022 in Wave Particle Duality by MowdieWark

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