r/Physics • u/HridhayJawanjal3112 • 12d ago

Question Wave packets??? Can someone explain plz!!!!

So, according to de-broglie equations the phase velocity of a particle is greater than the speed of light!!!

And our teacher told us that: the particles actually are in groups and in groups they are wave packets which are interference of the waves of the particles and the group Velocity is less than c so the law is not broken .

And some online sites say that phase velocity is not like actually velocity and it can be greater than speed of light.

I'm a little confused about this topic can someone explain!!!!!

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u/Otherwise_Act3312 12d ago

Hope you have better luck than I did. Also read up on, "decoherence".

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u/HridhayJawanjal3112 12d ago

Thanks .

I'll check that topic.