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de Broglie wavelength after freefall

This activity follows https://paradigms.oregonstate.edu/act/2525 and requires at minimum the end of the lecture which discusses this experiment.

In https://paradigms.oregonstate.edu/act/2525 you learned about an experiment in which rubidium atoms are dropped from a trap into an optical two-slit experiment. During this experiment the atoms fall a total of 1.5 meters. What is the de Broglie wavelength of an atom after falling from rest 1.5 m? \begin{align} \lambda &= \frac{2\pi\hbar}{p} \end{align}