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written by the Kansas State Physics Education Research Group and Dean A. Zollman

This resource discusses wave interference and quantum waves associated with particles. Two classical experiments are used to illustrate the different behavior of classical waves and particles, and a shockwave simulation gives an illustration of the quantum double-slit experiment. Questions lead the students through the tutorial.

https://web.phys.ksu.edu/vqm/tutorials/lightwaves/

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Quantum Physics - Probability, Waves, and Interference	- Lower Undergraduate - High School - Upper Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Interactive Simulation = Laboratory = Tutorial

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: Has a copyright or other licensing restriction.
Keywords:: double slit, tutorial, wave interference, wave-particle duality
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created March 4, 2004 by Bruce Mason
Record Updated:: August 2, 2016 by Lyle Barbato
Other Collections:: The Quantum Exchange

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Useful, but missing 2 graphics

Author: Blake Laing
Posted: March 31, 2005 at 4:48PM
Source: The Quantum Exchange collection

The fourth and fifth pages are missing graphics, which may lead one to believe that the whole resource is incomplete and unusable, but read on! It does include a nice double slit simulation and you may still find it useful.

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