A Scientist Who Orders a Double-Slit Apparatus for His Lab

question 1

Multiple Choice

A scientist who orders a double-slit apparatus for his lab might be planning to

• A) try to determine whether an object is a particle or a wave.
• B) measure the speed of alpha decay in a radioactive sample.
• C) clock the speeds of subatomic particles shot through the slits.
• D) find out whether photon emissions can be quantized.
• E) try to "trick" quantum particles by varying experiment types.

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Rod

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Cone

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