Take Home Quiz for lab #10 - 102N

Name:_____________________

ID:_________________________

Note: for this quiz you will have to do some research. You can find all this information in any physics textbook on Quantum Mechanics. Two references are given at the end.

1. Who was Prince Louis de Broglie. (in no more then a paragraph)

2. Pick two particles and find the relation between their de Broglie wavelength and their velocity.

3. a) For question #2, could you have picked any particle? ( YES or NO )

b) Calculate the de Broglie wavelength for a car on IH35 going exactly at the speed limit. Comment on the meaning of your numerical result. (Hint: remember that a car on IH35 is seen to be localized and not spread out like a light wave. Connect this fact to your answer.)

** Now do you better understand what a "wavicle" is? What does it all have to do with matter waves? And light?

Reference:

1) Serway, "Physics for scientists and engineers" , (with modern physics), second edition.

2) Halliday & Resnick, "Physics, parts 1 & 2"

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Take Home Quiz for lab #10 - 102N

Name:_____________________

ID:_________________________

Note: for this quiz you will have to do some research. You can find all this information in any physics textbook on Quantum Mechanics. Two references are given at the end.

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