Wave Particle Duality - A Level Physics 

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Yep. My wife sees no reason why she shouldn't use the washing machine just because I am recording a video! In some videos you can probably hear the vacuum cleaner - not to mention a kitchen clocks that moos and a dog that barks. Oh the trials of being a physicist!

Thanks. The full playlist of my A level physics revision videos is given in the description box above. I have attempted to cover all the material in the main A level physics courses but if there is a particular A level area you think I have missed let me know and I'll try to do a video on it.

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You go through this in such a linear, understandable manner. You have a gift for teaching, don't ever stop. Im writing a huge paper for my final, which counts 2x a normal final grade, and this video basically sums up all i need, and gives me a brilliant outline for the paper. Thank you so much.

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Lenses etc are covered in Geometric Optics - A Level Physics in the A Level Revision playlist. I shall be uploading a vid on sampling next week.

Thanks. I'm thinking of doing a short video on vector addition, subtraction, and multiplication (dot and cross product). It's in the queue.

Yes. And that is another way of expressing the uncertainty principle. If v=0 then p=0 (known for certain). Thus position is totally unknown.

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Yes it is. And I use that value later in the vldeo. It's just that the questions I was answering in the earlier part of the video assume the value of h calculated in the early question. I hope I added a comment to make clear the actual value of h.

I think it's at 5:52 where the φ sign mysteriously appears. You are, of course, quite right. Either that which is marked φ is actually φ/h (since if KE = 0 then hf = φ) or I should extend the y axis downwards and the point at which the line crosses the y axis would be KE = -φ (since f=0). I've added an annotation.

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Thank you so much! I was having trouble with this in my chemistry class and this has cleared much of the confusion.

You teach this really well, thank you!!

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great! i'm not studying physics but your videos show that understanding subjects through equations and math can be very simple.... actually, i find this more understandable than most of the "simple-approaching" videos from channels that are for some reason far more well known than yours..

this video connects as and a2 parts of wave particle duality.very very help ful

Thank you! The books we use explain things in such a poor way, sometimes it's so much better to just draw it all out and explain things simply!

I am saying that the part of the x axis which is labelled φ should be φ/h. The reason is that Kinetic Energy of the emerging electron is the energy of the incident photon (hf) - the binding energy or work function (φ). So KE = hf - φ. On the x axis KE = 0. So hf=φ. So f=φ/h. The x axis is a measure of frequency and when the y axis (KE) = 0 then f = φ/h

Many thanks for your kind words. Hope all goes well in the final paper.

I've just done a video on single and double slit experiments and diffraction gratings.

Yes provided the energy in the photons (E=hf) is greater than the work function (binding energy) of the electron to be liberated.

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Not rude at all. Glad they are of help. Should be up sometime early next week. It will be basic addition, subtraction, dot product and cross product for vectors.

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The particle nature of light comes from the fact that it transfers energy in discrete, quantised packages rather than a continuum which you might expect of a wave.

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awsome explanation really helpful for my physics class

What a detail teaching, most lectures would just skip how de Broglie arrived at p=h/lamda by starting with E=mc^2 @10:15

Good question. I think the real problem for us is that we operate in the real classical world rather than the world of quantum mechanics. We have adopted the idea that the electron is a particle and therefore it is very difficult to imagine how a single particle could behave like a wave passing through two slits. But quantum field theory suggests that actually everything is made of fields and particles are simply expectations of those fields.

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Try "Geometric Optics - A Level Physics" for lenses. I haven't done anything on sampling.

I've only watched this video and hit subscribe. I love your coverage of wave particle duality over all others I have seen. I would only nitpick that you phi looks like an empty set symbol. I don't think that it would be confusing to most people since you state the name several times, and anyone already familiar will know which slashed cycloid they're meant to interpret from the math in which it appears.

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Good Old Al. Who else would understand the significance of the flat line from zero to phi as an indirect measure the "binding energy" within the atom itself that needs be overcome to account for the electron's ejection.

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Its the consequence of quantum mechanics. Everything is both a particle and a wave. I suppose you would call it a Schrodinger Wave since it is his equation that the wave obeys. The problem is that for all bar atomic particles, the wavelength is so small that there is no way of measuring or detecting it.

Sir,your videos are so so helpful for my revision in Physics...and sir,is that the collision between a Photon and the electron is elastic is the kinetic energy conserved....

An elastic collision means that KE is conserved. In an inelastic collision it is not. Total Energy is always conserved but in an inelastic collision some of that kinetic energy is converted to other forms of energy eg heat. Momentum is always conserved.

So does a single photon take the form of a Gaussian wave packet? I've read classical E&M and then QM. I know planar waves are an approximation of light in general, but what is a single photon, and what is a modern model with quantization included. Thanks.

Basically yes on all counts. Ionising radiation is radiation that carries enough energy to liberate an electron from an atom. Atomic vibration arises when an atom absorbs a quantum of energy (E = hν). But temperature can't really be applied to one atom. Temperature is a measure of the collective energy of all the atoms/molecules in the substance.

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Hi, Excellent video! I'm trying to understand radiant heat transfer. If I understand correctly, electromagnetic radiation that happens at frequencies greater than the threshold frequency is what we'd refer to as ionizing radiation. Is that correct? And, if that's the case, infrared heat transfer is non-ionizing and as such does not strip electrons from the atom, but rather causes them to "jump up one orbit". Is that correct? (continued in the next post)

Dear Sir, do you have any videos on atomic spectra?

One postulates if there would be a mass so great as to produce a wave smaller than the Plank length? Would it be possible, one assumes not and the point of nearing it would be when the resultant gravitational waves would become energetically powerful enough to crush it out of existence in the forming / form of a black hole??

Thank you! Although I'm a bit confused with the work function- why is it the x-axis intercept and not the y-axis intercept? if y=mx+c -> Ke=hf - φ surely work function is c (y-axis intercept)? Thanks!

Could the wave particle duality of light be acting like the bits or zeros and ones of a computer? In this theory the physics of quantum mechanics represents the physics of ‘time’ as a physical process. The spontaneous absorption and emission of light is forming a blank canvas that we can interact with turning the possible into the actual within our own ref-frame! Time is an emergent property with the future coming into existence photon by photon relative to the actions of the atoms.

Oh okay, that's great. Have my exam on Monday so got a little worried for a second!

Hello...First of all thank you very much for these lessons...I want to ask a question...What is the atomic scale explanation of electromagnetic radiation sometimes behave as wave sometimes behave like a photon? Is the reason of this phenomenon coming from the fact, the moving charged particles (so the sources of electromagnetic fields) sometimes behave like waves and sometimes behave like particles?

And, if this is the case, I'm assuming that this jumping up causes an increase in the intensity of atomic vibration, being perceived as an increase in temperature. Is that correct? And, if this is the case, then radiational cooling happens when the electron jumps back down, releasing a photon with a frequency in the infrared range and slowing the vibration of the atom. Is that correct? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

@DrPhysicsA if light is wave: why do we need the double slit? why can't we use two sources of light and shine them together in a way they interfere? ( consider the 2 hols in the double slit as source of light so why cannot we do it directly from 2 source of light whithout the double slit? ) and another question when the light hit the screen as interference pattern they are also bouncing back to our eyes so we can see them, why they dont interfer as well before coming to our eyes.. ? would you answer me back?

I'm choosing my a level options and I was wandering whether physics was too hard to get an a/a* in. I'm really interested in physics but from what i've heard, it's like the hardest a level you can take. What do you guys taking it think?

appreciate ur quick respone ill let u know if u missed any topic.edexcel only

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at 16:30 you substituted "v" as root "m/2ev" when "v" = root "2ev/m". That is something that confused me. But then we substitute correctly and put m inside the root as m^2 on the third step and everything makes sense. Could you please put annotation on the video at 16:30 for people watching in the future. Great videos, many thanks :)

why can electrons (or any particle) behave as waves? i understand the mathematical formulae governing this principle, but what physical properties does electrons have on an atomic scale that permits it to pass through two slits at the same time? and what is its waveform? (i suppose there aren't oscillation of particles, so how does the wave of an electron look like? how can its wavelength be observed from its wave profile?)

you could measure the wavelengths if you had enough humans together unite for a singularity time or times in which every person sent a text to a person on their top five on their cell or chimed a sound or shut off and turned back on their houselights, without blowing up everything so planning the logistics around it... I'm trying to gather a force like that, if you know any scientists into trying to measure that let me know... give gravitational force to people trying to clean up power currently

Excuse me. Is it possible to have photoelectric effect when electrons strike semi-metal like graphite?

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If the electron is a wave, what happen when the electron does not travel? I meant from the equation that you had proven on 12:35..if the electron doesn't travel, velocity equal zero...then we will get infinite wave length?

I'm not quite sure what your annotation meant at 05:52

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If waves pass through a medium, what would the medium be for a macroscopic object behaving as a wave?

Yea, but u're missing the important points in the video, like the intensity of the light in the photoelectric experiment and things that explains it cant be described as wave. U went directly to the conslusion that it's particles becuase it can transfer energy to the electron.

Sorry, but i'm not quite sure how you got m into the square root to get h/root2meV. at 16:18 thank you.

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I said joules per second and he replied, "not joules per second but joules second".

at 7:41, you said that the electron would only be ejected of the metal if the photon would have enough energy...but what would happen if both of them had equal energies?

Waves don't necessarily pass through a medium. Electromagnetic radiation can pass through a vacuum.

At time 5.50 you have labelled phi on the horizontal axis by error, because it should be on the negative part of the vertical axis. Clearly phi must have units of energy!

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Is h not 6.63*10^-34?

What is secondary wave?

At 10:40 ,you said that photon could be either mass or energy ? How it could be mass?

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I've watched videos like this so many times and I still don't get it. I've got to the point I can't even look at videos that say light's wave - particle duality is wrong and know enough to find fault in their arguments. The consensus seems to be that light has this wave particle duality and therefore anyone saying it does not have this duality must be some nut. Am I wrong?

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So to work out the wavelength of the Earth. H = 6.64E-34 M = 5.972E24 V = 30,000 m/s (orbit around the sun) Does this mean the Wavelength is 3.7E-63m?

if the wavelength we emit is soo small,ifwe emit waves smaller than gamma rays isn't it harmful.