CHEM 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Uncertainty Principle, Quantum Mechanics, Classical Mechanics
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If you know it"s momentum, the position of the particle is indeterminate . Meaning, that we can never see both the interference pattern and determine which slit the electron goes through in the experiment at the same time. The velocity if an electron is related to its wave. But the position of an electron is related to its particle nature. Therefore we can never simultaneously measure its position and its velocity with precision. Impossible to measure both x and p. ( x) x (m v) h/4 . V must be greater than or equal to a finite (non-infinite) number. Therefore, the more accurate you know the position of an electron, the less accurate you know its velocity. But the more accurate you know its velocity, the more you know its position. This also proves why electrons can be observed as either a particle or a wave but not both. This means they are complementary properties, properties that.
