Recent content by bjbbshaw

I strongly recommend the book "The Meaning of Quantum Theory" by Jim Baggott, Oxford University Press, 1992. I think you will find something pretty close to what you're looking for on pages 21, 22 and the following discussion. Baggott shows how Schrodinger probably developed the equation and...

To go back to jorgdv's original question, long wavelength electromagnetic radiation does indeed behave as waves, as described by Maxwell's equations. There is a discontinuity in how e-m radiation is modeled, depending on the scale: long wavelength radiation interacts with matter as described by...

As you suspect, you have to be careful with kinetic energy. If you express the kinetic energy of a free moving mass simply as ##\frac{m v^2}{2}## the kinetic energy is relative to the speed of the mass with respect to the observer. From it you can calculate the force and distance or time...