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Posted on 2014-12-02 13:39:00 in Physics by JAK

Use both the relativistic form of the De Broglie equation (?/?compton) and the non-relativistic De Broglie equation ? = h/p (with p = m v) to calculate the wavelengths of electrons that move with 1% the speed of light.

Does your calculation convince you that one can often ignore relativistic effects if an electron moves with less than 1% of the speed of light (because the numerical results obtained from both formulae are then sufficiently close to each other)?

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