Question

What is the de broglie wavelength of a 149-g baseball traveling at 95.4 mph? (1 mile = 1.609 km, h = 6.63 × 10–34 j·s)?

Answer 1

The solution for the problem is:

Wavelength = Planck’s constant/(mass*velocity) 

Planck’s constant= 6.63*10^-34 with units of J-s or kg-m^2/s^2-s 

mass = 149g = 0.149 kg 

velocity = 95.4.mi/1hr(1609.3m/1mi)(1hr/3600sec) = 42.65m/s 

h/mv = 6.63*10^-34 kg-m^2/s^2-s/(42.65m/s*0.149kg)

wavelength = 1.04 *10^-34 m