Lecture 4: Wave-particle duality of matter, Schrädinger equation

author: Elizabeth Vogel Taylor, Department of Chemistry, Center for Future Civic Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
recorded by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
published: July 28, 2010,   recorded: September 2008,   views: 4874
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Comment2 David Crabtree, October 9, 2011 at 7:41 a.m.:

Awesome question at 34:50.

Is the answer it does but the object would have to be travelling very slowly in a frictionless environment (preferably without gravity pulling the wave down) to observe a wave. Rough calculations brings the velocity of a baseball down to 1E-24 m/s to even bring the wavelength into the nanometres region (1E-30 if you want to get your ruler on the case), and with such a low velocity (and therefore tiny force and tiny frequency) amplitude is going to be immeasurably small.

I think either the student or I is/are confused about the amplitude, as this is really I think he wants to observe, and observable amplitude can only exist with substantial force.


Comment3 Jussi, April 26, 2012 at 10:06 p.m.:

About de Broglie waves... I don't think whole baseball can be described as one particle, and therefore there is no zero momentum state either.


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