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Sample Exercise: Finding the Wavelength of a Baseball
What is the de Broglie wavelength, in meters, of a 145 g baseball traveling at 80 mph?

m = 145 g = 0.145 kg

v = 80 mph = 35.7 m/s

$h = 6.6 26 × 10^{-34}$ Js

λ = ?

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