John Harmonic Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 Is it comparable to ocean waves, the wave properties of matter such as electrons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 The behavior is similar. Matter waves will display effects like constructive and destructive interference, and diffraction, just like water waves. But there are details that are different; water waves obey classical physics, and matter waves obey quantum physics (which means there are two wave behaviors to worry about — one described by deBroglie and one by Schrödinger). Water is a medium for the waves, while there is no medium for a matter wave — the particle itself is displaying wave properties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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