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    Radiation exhibits both wave-like and particle-like properties. Interference and diffraction phenomena demonstrate that radiation behaves as a wave, as multiple waves can occupy the same space. However, the photoelectric effect, Compton effect, and blackbody radiation are better explained by radiation behaving as particles. Louis de Broglie proposed that all matter, including electrons, protons, atoms, and molecules, exhibits both wave and particle properties, with wavelength inversely proportional to momentum. The document then provides equations relating wavelength, frequency, momentum, kinetic energy, and mass for both electromagnetic radiation and matter waves. It notes several properties of matter waves, including greater wavelength for lighter particles, dependence on velocity, and velocity greater than light.

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    Radiation exhibits both wave-like and particle-like properties. Interference and diffraction phenomena demonstrate that radiation behaves as a wave, as multiple waves can occupy the same space. However, the photoelectric effect, Compton effect, and blackbody radiation are better explained by radiation behaving as particles. Louis de Broglie proposed that all matter, including electrons, protons, atoms, and molecules, exhibits both wave and particle properties, with wavelength inversely proportional to momentum. The document then provides equations relating wavelength, frequency, momentum, kinetic energy, and mass for both electromagnetic radiation and matter waves. It notes several properties of matter waves, including greater wavelength for lighter particles, dependence on velocity, and velocity greater than light.

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    Radiation exhibits both wave-like and particle-like properties. Interference and diffraction phenomena demonstrate that radiation behaves as a wave, as multiple waves can occupy the same space. However, the photoelectric effect, Compton effect, and blackbody radiation are better explained by radiation behaving as particles. Louis de Broglie proposed that all matter, including electrons, protons, atoms, and molecules, exhibits both wave and particle properties, with wavelength inversely proportional to momentum. The document then provides equations relating wavelength, frequency, momentum, kinetic energy, and mass for both electromagnetic radiation and matter waves. It notes several properties of matter waves, including greater wavelength for lighter particles, dependence on velocity, and velocity greater than light.

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    Radiation exhibits both wave-like and particle-like properties. Interference and diffraction phenomena demonstrate that radiation behaves as a wave, as multiple waves can occupy the same space. However, the photoelectric effect, Compton effect, and blackbody radiation are better explained by radiation behaving as particles. Louis de Broglie proposed that all matter, including electrons, protons, atoms, and molecules, exhibits both wave and particle properties, with wavelength inversely proportional to momentum. The document then provides equations relating wavelength, frequency, momentum, kinetic energy, and mass for both electromagnetic radiation and matter waves. It notes several properties of matter waves, including greater wavelength for lighter particles, dependence on velocity, and velocity greater than light.

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    Wave & Particle Nature of Radiation A particle is associated with mass, velocity, momentum and energy and a wave

    is associated with frequency, wavelength, phase and wave velocity, amplitude, intensity. Radiations sometimes behaves like waves and sometimes like particle 1. Phenomenons like interference, diffraction etc are exhibited by waves. These phenomena requires the presence of two waves at the same position at the same time, obviously two particles cannot occupy same position at the same time. Thus we conclude that a radiation behaves like wave. 2. Plancks quantum theory was successful in explaining black body radiation, photoelectric effect, Compton effect, and had established the fact that radiant energy in its interaction with the matter, behaves as though is consists of corpuscles. This established the particle nature of the radiations. Note: Radiations cant exhibit its particle and wave nature simultaneously Louis de-Broglies Contribution Louis de-Broglie extended the wave particle parallelism of radiations to all the fundamental entities of Physics electrons, protons, neutrons, atoms, molecules, etc. According to de-Broglie a moving particle is associated with a wave with wavelength
    = h mv

    From Plancks theory of radiation: From Einsteins theory:

    E = h =

    hc

    E = mc 2 h From the above two equations we have = mc


    h mv

    If we consider the case of a particle of mass m moving with velocity v, then, = If E is the kinetic energy of the particle, then we have =
    h 2mE

    de-Broglie wavelength associated with an electron accelerated through a pd V


    = h 2mqV
    h 3mkT

    ,=

    12.26 V

    de-Broglie wavelength associated with a gas molecule of mass m at temperature T(in Kelvin)
    =

    Wave velocity(u) of de-Broglie wave Since u = , also h = mc 2 = For matter waves, =


    1 mv 2 E 2 eV = = = h h h mc 2 h

    h c2 , therefore u = mv

    u can also be expressed in terms of wavelength as

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    h eV 2m h 1 = = x , where = h h 2m 2 2m

    h 2meV

    u=

    1 h h x 2 x , therefore u = 2m 2m

    Properties of Matter Waves 1. Lighter the particle, greater is its wavelength. 2. Smaller the velocity of the particle, greater the wavelength associated with it. 3. Matter waves are not electromagnetic. If v = 0 , = And if v = , = 0 It means waves are associated with particles only when they are in motion, it is independent of the charge of the particles. Hence matter waves cannot be electromagnetic as the electromagnetic waves are produced by motion of charge particles (oscillating charge particles) 4. Velocity of the matter waves depends on the velocity of the particles, i.e. it is not a constant unlike the electromagnetic waves. 5. Velocity of matter waves is greater than the velocity of light. We know that =
    mc 2 h mc 2 h x h mv

    The wave velocity () = =


    =

    c2 , as particle velocity (v) cannot exceed velocity of light (c), v

    is greater than the

    velocity of light.

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