Do Electrons travel as wave? If they do, can their path be described by the sinuisoidal function?

Question

Particles wave such as sea wave travels in sinuisoidal pattern. But electrons are charged particles, if charged particles travel in sinuisoidal function, won't they emit EM wave? Then, do electrons travel as wave?
My answer is NO. Electrons can never travel as wave. Electrons can never travel at light speed. Electrons do not possess wave characteristic.
Kindly advice and feel free to discuss.

Answer 1

Actually, electrons do have wave properties. The wavelength is equal to h/mv, where h is Planck's constant, m is the mass, v is velocity. With this equation you can find the wavelength of any matter.
Although the wavelength of an electron is usually less than a nanometer, we can still detect it.

Answer 2

In my EM physics course we learned that an accelerating charge emits electromagnetic waves as it accelerates. So, according to this, they do emit EM waves but only when they are accelerated.

Earlier this year in my modern physics course we learned about the structure of an atom. The commonly held concept of the atom is a densely packed nucleus surrounded by orbiting electrons. Going back to classical mechanics, you find that something that is orbiting something else is always accelerated inward. This is called uniform circular motion. So, if the electrons are orbiting the nucleus, they must be constantly accelerated and so must constantly be emitting EM waves. When an electron emits an EM wave, it must loose energy equal to the amount of energy contained in the EM wave, also called a photon. As the electron emits photons and looses energy it must get closer to the nucleus to conserve momentum. Following this logic, eventually the electron will spiral into the nucleus. Since this does not happen, there must be something wrong with this picture.

We know that electron orbits are stable, so it must be that accelerating electrons do not emit photons. We also know that electrons have discrete distances they orbit the nucleus. To go from one of these energy levels to another, they must either emit or absorb a photon with enough energy to allow them to transition from one orbit to another. As the energy levels get farther away from the nucleus, they also get closer together until eventually they are so close together that it looks like there is no distance between them. So when an electron goes from a higher energy level to a lower one, a photon is emitted. But wait, doesn't that sound a lot like our old picture of accelerating electrons emitting photons? Maybe, since the energy levels are so close together, they appear to be continuous and so whenever an electron is moving, and it is far away from a nucleus, it appears to be emitting photons as it travels because it is constantly going from one energy level to another.

As to your question about whether electrons travel as waves, the answer is yes and no. They posses properties of both what we think of as particles and also properties of what we think of as waves. In fact, all energy posses properties of both particles and waves. This is known as particle-wave duality. For more information on electrons being waves look up electron diffraction.

As was stated by someone already, all matter has associated waves. These waves are called de Broglie waves. Just like any other wave, they have a wavelength, imaginatively called the de Broglie wavelength, as well as frequency and periodicity and all other things associated with waves. The reason we never see or hear them is because their wavelengths are so small.

For more information on the particle-wave duality you might want to look up the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle.

Answer 3

planks quantum theory of radiations tells about the dual nature of light(ie it acts as wave as well as particle) .De -Broglie in 1942 said that all matter particles in motion have dual character.it means that electrons,protons,neutrons,atoms and molecules possess dual characteristics of both the material particle and a wave.this is called as wave-particle duality in matter.
electrons move in sinuisoidal fun.when fast moving electrons hits heavy metal anode in a discharge tube,X-rays r produced.energy is released in the form of EM waves when these electrons r suddenly stopped.
donot confuse with speed of light.electron donot travel wid speed of light ,but fast moving e- can produce EM waves as described above.thus,e-possess wave characteristic.
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Answer 4

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Answer 5

Yes, electrons, like all particles, do have a wavelength equal to plank's constant over the momentum. h/(m*v). This principle of electron wavelength is used in electron microscopy, to name one example.

Answer 6

All of what you are saying appears to be correct.

I think electrons (especially in TV's) tend to travel in a straight and are only diverted when they collide with surrounding walls, or are altered by magnetic forces pulling or attracting the charges within the electrons.