can anyone explain me the de-Broglie's concept of dual nature of matter?
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Explanation:
Dual Nature of Matter. In case of light some phenomenon like diffraction and interference can be explained on the basis of its wave character. ... Louis de Broglie, in 1924 extended the idea of photons to material particles such as electron and he proposed that matter also has a dual character-as wave and as particle.
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The de Broglie hypothesis states that particles of matter can behave as both waves and particles, just like light.
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De Broglie Hypothesis:
In quantum mechanics, matter is believed to behave both like a particle and a wave at the sub-microscopic level. The particle behavior of matter is obvious. When you look at a table, you think of it like a solid, stationary piece of matter with a fixed location. At this macroscopic scale, this holds true. But when we zoom into the subatomic level, things begin to get more complicated, and matter doesn't always exhibit the particle behavior that we expect.
This non-particle behavior of matter was first proposed in 1923, by Louis de Broglie, a French physicist. In his PhD thesis, he proposed that particles also have wave-like properties. Although he did not have the ability to test this hypothesis at the time, he derived an equation to prove it using Einstein's famous mass-energy relation and the Planck equation.