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Your eye is most sensitive to green light with a wavelength of around 550 nm. What energy must an electron have to exhibit the same de Broglie wavelength?
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de-Broglie wavelength ()
According to de-Broglie, a matter can show both particle character and wave character.
The equation to find energy is;
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