de Broglie Wavelength -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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de Broglie Wavelength

The wavelength of a particle, given by

where h is Planck's constant and p is the momentum.

In the nonrelativistic limit, this can be written

where m is the particle mass and v is the velocity.

de Broglie Wavenumber