Probably one of the more startling revelations of Quantum Theory is the ‘wave-like’ nature of all particles. Not just photons. Physicists had a much easier time accepting the wavelike nature of photons (after all, light acted and behaved like a wave most of the time) than they did of other particles. De-Broglie’s hypothesis that not just photons, but electrons, protons etc. – all had a wave-like aspect about them. They could be made to interfere and bend around obstacles. The equation that described this wavelike behavior of particles  – relates the momentum (a particle attribute) to the wavelength (a wave attribute):

(1)   \begin{equation*} p = \frac {\hbar}{\lambda} \end{equation*}

Particle in a Potential Well (e.g. electron in an atom)

The dimension a of the box that contains the particle, must contain an integral number of wavelengths  (actually ‘half-wave-lengths). If the width of the box (a) is considered to be proportional to the energy of the particle, we have an approximate equation:

E(x) \sim a which means E(x) \sim n\frac{\lambda}{2}

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