what is wave motion?

Question

electrons have wave nature. does it mean they move like a wave??

Answer 1

don't listen to goring, he doesn't know what he's talking about. electrons DO have wavelike properties and can propegate as a wave under certain circumstances. it's part of a quantum mechanical principle that isn't fully understood yet. However, i CAN tell you how it was proven, since i did a ten page research paper on it in my last semester at college.

light passing through two slits does what's called diffraction and interferes with itself. this is because the waves spread as though they came from a point source when they pass through the slits. strict particles would not do this, they would pass straight through and hit the detector in two (for the double slit experiment) distinct regions. HOWEVER, firing streams of electrons showed the same interference pattern as light waves. indeed, even firing only ONE electron (so long as a sensor was not placed on one slit to determine where the electron was) had an interference pattern. this means that the single electron passed through both slits at the same time and interfered with itself.

this phenomenon is due to a certain level of uncertainty. Shroedenger (sp?) came up with a theory about this that is rather amusing, but more or less the accepted explanation. For more info on uncertainty and probability in quantum mechanics, look up the theory on shroedinger's cat.

Answer 2

Wave motion is defined as the movement of a distortion of a material or medium, where the individual parts or elements of the material only move back-and-forth, up-and-down, or in a cyclical pattern.

It appears as if something is actually moving along the material, but in reality it is just the distortion moving, where one part influences the next.


An example to understand this is the " Mexican Wave" where at the ballgame, someone in the stands may start up a "wave" by standing up and then sitting down. The people on one side then stand up and sit down, then the next people, and so one.

Everyone is still in their seats, but the wave traveled through the ballpark from one end to the other.

Answer 3

Mechanical Waves are waves which propagate through a material medium (solid, liquid, or gas) at a wave speed which depends on the elastic and inertial properties of that medium. There are two basic types of wave motion for mechanical waves: longitudinal waves and transverse waves.

Answer 4

Wave motion is defined as the movement of a distortion of a material or medium, where the individual parts or elements of the material only move back-and-forth, up-and-down, or in a cyclical pattern.

It appears as if something is actually moving along the material, but in reality it is just the distortion moving, where one part influences the next.

Answer 5

wave motion, also known as wave propagation, it the process by which a disturbance at one point is propagated to another point more remote from the source with no net transport of the material of the medium itself; examples include the motion of electromagnetic waves, sound waves, hydrodynamic waves in liquids, and vibration waves in solids. sound is a form of wave motion; wind is not. wave motion can occur only in a medium in which energy can be stored in both kinetic and potential form. in a mechanical medium, kinetic energy results from inertia and is stored in the velocity of the molecules, while potential energy results from elasticity and is stored in the displacement of the molecules.

Answer 6

I never herd of gorz.... But if his effect is that he can be summon when you take damage or a nother effect that wave motion cannon would envoke then yes it would end in a tie... But why not just use a barrel behind the door so much easyer!

Answer 7

You have actually answered (in a way) your own question.

"Electrons have wave nature". Note that you said "wave nature". To have the "nature" of something does not mean you are that something.

Basically, the statement says that moving electrons have certain behaviours that are normally attributed to waves, eg diffraction, interference.

An electron can be diffracted - when it passes through a small slit or the corner of an object, it can experience a deviation in its path.

An electron can experience interference - as in one of the previous answers, we can cause constructive (additive effect) and destructive (subtractive effect) interference with electrons.

Answer 8

They are always related to electric and magnetic field waves.
Note an electron has definitively been proven to be an electrical mass particle.Not a wave!
what are wave natures ?

Answer 9

It's what they do at the football games.