What Is Compton Scattering?

What Is Compton Scattering?

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Setting the scene

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Setting the scene

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What Is Compton Scattering?

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 Setting the scene
  3. 3 Who was Compton?
  4. 4 What is Compton Scattering?
  5. 5 What did he find?
  6. 6 Failure of electromagnetism
  7. 7 Explaining the observations
  8. 8 Conservation of momentum
  9. 9 Conservation of energy
  10. 10 Putting it all together
  11. 11 Interpreting the result
  12. 12 Discussion
  13. 13 The effect of wavelength on scattering
  14. 14 What does the Compton wavelength represent?...

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