The wave-particle duality is one of those essential pillars. Physics courses devote weeks to just introducing it – but there ...

The concept of wave-particle duality is one that has been at the forefront of many scientist’s minds for decades. While going to university, budding physicists will spend weeks just trying to ...

The approach, called the Beryllium Electron capture in Superconducting Tunnel junctions experiment (BeEST) works because the ...

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Wave particle duality The photoelectric effect shows that light is made up of individual photons. Photoemissions will take place if photons have a high enough frequency and have enough energy.

The inherent contradiction in the way energy behaves. At the turn of the 20th century, it was believed that light was electromagnetic waves and electrons were particles. By the 1930s, it was ...

Photoemission is a process during which electrons are ejected from a metal surface when exposed to electromagnetic radiation, (eg ultraviolet). If a clean, positively charged zinc plate is exposed ...