Thursday, June 4, 2015

quantum mechanics - Do electrons follow wave like path or become waves?



enter image description here


when an electron starts moving with high velocity does it move in a wave like path or become a wave itself?



Answer




when an electron starts moving with high velocity does it move in a wave like path or become a wave itself?




In the present day model for elementary particles, the standard model, the electron is a point particle with the given mass and other attributes shown in the table, which have been experimentally determined.


It is not a wave. What has a wave behavior is the wavefunction $Ψ$ determining the probability of finding the electron at (x,y,z,t) by the value of $Ψ^*Ψ$ , dependent on the boundary conditions of the specific problem.


The image you show is wrong. The electron, since there are no boundary conditions, will move in a straight line within the Heisenberg uncertainty principle constraints of its given momentum.


No comments:

Post a Comment

classical mechanics - Moment of a force about a given axis (Torque) - Scalar or vectorial?

I am studying Statics and saw that: The moment of a force about a given axis (or Torque) is defined by the equation: $M_X = (\vec r \times \...