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Double Slit Wave-Particle Duality Model
written by Wolfgang Christian
The Double Slit Wave-Particle Duality Model demonstrates how matter and light display both wave- and particle-like properties in single and double slit experiments.  The simulation shows a detector screen placed behind an aperture with one or two open slits.  Particles (electrons or photons) pass through the experiment one at a time and their impact is recorded on the screen.  Although it is at first difficult to discern a pattern, a diffraction (interference) pattern eventually emerges suggesting that each particle is interfering with itself.  The particle seems to be going through both slits as if it were a wave but it is detected (observed) at only one location as if were a particle.  In other words, a single particle is interfering with itself as if it were simultaneously passing through both slits.

The Double Slit Wave-Particle Duality Model was created using the Easy Java Simulations (EJS) modeling tool.  It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive.  Double click the ejs_qm_DoubleSlitWaveParticleDuality.jar file to run the program if Java is installed.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java (JRE).
1 source code document is available
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- Probability
Modern Physics
- General
Optics
- Diffraction
= Diffraction Through One Slit
- Interference
= Interference From Two Sources
Quantum Physics
- Probability, Waves, and Interference
- Upper Undergraduate
- High School
- Lower Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Simulation
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Is the Basis For Double Slit Wave-Particle Duality Model Open Source Physics Java Applet

changes made:
flip the detection over time to the right panel instead of the original center panel
draw the world view in the center panel
added the aperture with slits with left and right
added the trail of electron or photon travelling from source gun of electron or photon to screen
made the control panel to suit my usual design
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