Quote: the idea of a particle is limited; if we know the wavelength exactly, the location is unknown; if we know the location exactly, the momentum is unknown

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In some special case it can be that … [probability] … Such an amplitude varies according to a definite … [In the classical situation, we have a particle whose energy is determined by the frequency and whose momentum is determined by the wave number.] … This means that the idea of a particle … is in certain ways unsatisfactory. For instance, … [if the square of the probability amplitude is a constant,] we do not know where [the particle] is--it can be anywhere--there is a great uncertainty in its … [if we know the location of a particle] we have a wave train whose length is .delta.x … , and the wavelength (the distance between nodes … momentum. … we cannot define a unique wavelength for a … and thus there is an indefiniteness in the …   Google-1   Google-2

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