 This effect demonstrates that light cannot be explained purely as

a wave phenomenon.

 Compton's assumptions was light behaves as a stream of

particles whose energy is proportional to the frequency (i.e.
inversely proportional to the wavelength)

 Conservation laws of the total energy and of momentum are

obeyed in collisions.
 For x rays,
This gives the changes in wavelength expected for a photon that is scattered through
the angle q by the particle of rest mass me

Of electron only
Greater the angle , greater the wavelength change
 Why two peaks?
• Shifted wavelength and unshifted wavelength
• Shifted wavelength due to the loosely bound
electron
• Unshifted wavelength due to the inner-shell
electron.
• DA1-Problem 10
• An incident 71pm X-ray is incident on a calcite target.
Find the wavelength of the X-ray scattered at
a 30° angle. What is the largest shift that can be
expected in this experiment?
• DA-1 Problem 11
• An FM radio transmitter has a power output of 100
kW and operates at a frequency of 94 MHz. How
many photons per second does the transmitter emit?