Consider the slit with width 1.0 cm which has appeared in former pre-class assignments and how particles with a mass b
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Consider the slit with width 1.0 cm which has appeared in former pre-class assignments and how
particles with a mass behave in such slits.
a) According to the De Broglie hypothesis, objects with mass can be described as waves. If a
bullet is shot through the slit, how would the wave fronts behave in the slit according to
Huyghens’ principle? Sketch a two-dimensional graph of the wavefronts.
b) If the mass of the bullet is about 20 g and its speed is 200 m/s, how and with which physical
quantities and equations you could assess the probability for the bullet to be diverged essen-
tially from its original direction of propagation?
c) How would the situation change if instead a bullet an electron was flying through the slit?
d) How would the situation change, if in the case of an electron, the width of the slit was just 1.0
Å?
particles with a mass behave in such slits.
a) According to the De Broglie hypothesis, objects with mass can be described as waves. If a
bullet is shot through the slit, how would the wave fronts behave in the slit according to
Huyghens’ principle? Sketch a two-dimensional graph of the wavefronts.
b) If the mass of the bullet is about 20 g and its speed is 200 m/s, how and with which physical
quantities and equations you could assess the probability for the bullet to be diverged essen-
tially from its original direction of propagation?
c) How would the situation change if instead a bullet an electron was flying through the slit?
d) How would the situation change, if in the case of an electron, the width of the slit was just 1.0
Å?