What type of wave shows wave-particle duality? Mechanical or Electromagnetic?

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I would have have said electromagnetic. This is because visible light can have a calculable wavelength and frequency and can undergo diffraction patters as a wave, and yet can also be modelled as a particle called a photon which is used when describing how electrons jump between energy levels as it is a discrete packet of energy. It is not mechanical as they require a medium to travel through.

Dafna11 [192]3 years ago

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Mechanical wave shows dual nature

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Even in the most advanced circuits, we cannot oscillate electrons back and forth at that rate through wires. But we can oscillat

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Answer:

the oscillations of the electrons must be in the 10⁸ Hz = 100 MHz range

Explanation:

The speed of a wave of radio, television, light, heat, all are manifestations of electromagnetic waves that are oscillations of electric and magnetic fields that support each other, the speed of all these waves is the same and the vacuum is equal to c = 3 108 m / s

All waves have a relationship between the speed of the wave, its frequency and wavelength

c = λ f

f = c /λ

for this case lam = 1 m

f = 3 10⁸/1

f = 3 10⁸ Hz

the oscillations of the electrons must be in the MHz range

It should be clarified that the speed of light in air is a little lower

n = c / v

v = c / n

the refractive index of vacuum is n = 1 and the refractive index of air is n = 1.000002

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