How does wavelength change with speed?

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I thought I heard the fact that when you make a particle faster it's wavelength get's bigger, and if we accellerate a baseball enough it's wavelength goes visible? but is that just a misunderstanding and opposite... because one can see in the broglie wavelength equation:

λ = h/mv that obviously as v(velocity/speed) increases... the wavelength becomes smaller... right? wasn't it all just a misunderstanding on my half?
 
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Jarfi said:
I thought I heard the fact that when you make a particle faster it's wavelength get's bigger, and if we accellerate a baseball enough it's wavelength goes visible? but is that just a misunderstanding and opposite... because one can see in the broglie wavelength equation:

λ = h/mv that obviously as v(velocity/speed) increases... the wavelength becomes smaller... right? wasn't it all just a misunderstanding on my half?

UH ... what is the wavelength of a baseball?
 
DaleSpam said:
Yes, the de Broglie wavelength gets shorter as the particles momentum increases.

ah just wanted to make sure, thanks