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Completing the correspondence

We now have both the group velocity and the Newtonian velocity v in terms of partial derivatives and so can complete the correspondence. Comparing (5) and (11) we must have

which is the second de Broglie relation mapping energies to frequencies. Gathering the two de Broglie relations together,

 



Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Wed Oct 11 18:33:11 EDT 1995