What Will Be Observed on the Screen After an Electron Passes Through a Slit?

[neelakash]

Homework Statement

A single electron with de Broglie wavelength λ passes through a slit of width d=2λ.The electron can strike a fluorescent screen.What will be observed on the screen?

(a)a diffraction pattern
(b)a single flash as if the electron had moved in a straight line through the slit.
(c)a single flash that could occur anywhere on the screen.
(d)a single flash that would most likely occur where a corresponding diffraction pattern would have the highest intensity.

Homework Equations

a sinθ=λ

The Attempt at a Solution

(a)clearly wrong
(b)wrong as electron must have interacted with the slit
(c)It seems incorrect as it means that the flash can occur even at a remote end of the screen also where the electron may not possily reach...
(d)looks correct to me...

Please let me know if I am correct

 

[meopemuk]

Please let me know if I am correct

Yes, you are correct.

Eugene.