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ln Chapter 2, we have discussed some experiments which indicate that radiation should be regarded as being made up of zero-mass particles called photons each of which carries a quantum of energy hv and momentum \(\frac{{h{\mathbf{v}}}}{c}{\mathbf{n}}\). It was also observed that particles with nonzero mass, such as the electron, have wave properties associated with them, and produce diffraction patterns similar to those produced by radiation.
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Patil, S.H. (2021). Elements of Quantum Theory. In: Elements of Modern Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70143-7_3
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