Compton Wavelength -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Compton Wavelength

The constant of nature with units of length arising in the Compton effect,


where h is Planck's constant, is the electron mass, and c is the speed of light. It is implemented as ElectronComptonWavelength in the Mathematica add-on package Miscellaneous`PhysicalConstants` (which can be loaded with the command <<Miscellaneous`).

Compton Effect




References

Griffiths, D. J. Introduction to Elementary Particles. New York: Wiley, p. 15, 1987.



© 1996-2007 Eric W. Weisstein

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