what is the significance of the de-Broglie relationship?
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Explanation:
The de Broglie equation relates a moving particle's wavelength with its momentum. The de Broglie wavelength is the wavelength, λ, associated with a massive particle and is related to its momentum, p, through the Planck constant, h: In other words, you can say that matter also behaves like waves.
de-Broglie's relationship is not significant to macroscopic objects.
This is because macroscopic objects have large masses and if we applied the de-Broglie's relationship to large moving objects then the wavelength associated with the object is very short.
Because wavelength is inversely proportional to mass.
This short wavelength is out of detection limits.
Therefore the term wavelength is insignificant from macroscopic moving objects. But the Macroscopic moving
particles like electrons have wavelength which is measurable. Therefore the de-Broglie's relationship holds good for such particles.