A ball has a mass of 0.129 kg just before it strikes the Earth after being dropped from a building 36.2 m tall. What is its de Broglie wavelength? The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s 2 and Planck’s constant is 6.62607 × 10−34 J · s.

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A ball has a mass of 0.129 kg just before it strikes the Earth after being dropped from a building 36.2 m tall. What is its de Broglie wavelength? The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s 2 and Planck’s constant is 6.62607 × 10−34 J · s. Answer in units of m.

 

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