Wave-particle duality

Concept — Matter and light show both wave-like and particle-like properties.

Present in chapters

21

Linked atoms

19 linked atoms.

16 Onde

• Newton versus Huygens: waves or particles?

21 Introduzione alla meccanica quantistica

• Double slit, which intensity graph
• The four great themes of quantum mechanics
• Wave-particle duality
• The photon
• Single-electron interference
• The electron as a standing wave
• De Broglie’s hypothesis
• The four pillars: a single structure
• Waves, particles and the observer problem
• Uncertainty principle
• Problem — Collapse of the wave function at the polariser
• Problem — Wave-particle complementarity
• Problem — de Broglie wavelength of an electron at 100 V
• Problem — The single-electron paradox
• Problem — Why the atom does not collapse (standing wave)
• Problem — Quantum probability versus determinism
• Problem — Linking Malus’s law and the single photon
• Problem — Detector at the slits and interference