Particle analysis of diffraction

[Byron Forbes]

I have done a bit of googling but cannot find anything in this regard at all.

It seems to all be "thought of" (rather than explained) by the Huygens–Fresnel principle and other spin offs.

Can anyone point me to a particle explanation of diffraction for sound waves? Or does anyone here have one?

If not, I'll have a crack at one myself and see what happens! :)

 

[sophiecentaur]

Can anyone point me to a particle explanation of diffraction for sound waves? Or does anyone here have one?

Diffraction is a wave phenomenon. The pressure and density of a gas are both macroscopic quantities and the behaviour of the 'particles' in a gas is based on the statistics of large numbers and not on individual particle behaviour.

Even Phonons are quantised forms of vibrational energy in solid lattices and are quasi particles but, afaik, interference effects in a solid have to be dealt with in terms of waves.

Diffraction of EM waves or beams of quantum particles (electrons etc.) has to be treated with the wave model. So I am not sure what you actually want to do here.

There would be a problem with assigning a phase to a particle (needed for diffraction calculations) would present difficulties.