Can someone explain Compton scattering to me?

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anonymous · Answer

Ok lemme try.. its more or less like Raman effect... just that this is for X rays.. 
So when  X rays were scattered off certain crystals.. the resulting scattered rays were seeming to have different frequencies than the incident frequencies.. This result is called compton effect.. or Compton scattering..  The reason can only be explained by making use of photon theory of light.. (this is really a nightmare for wave theory) .. so the explanation is due to microscopic interaction between photons and electrons..

anonymous · Answer

makes sense thanks. So some photons with certain frequencies will react with certain matter but not other kinds?

anonymous · Answer

no no

those photons do not REACT.. these photons interact with electrons..  you can imagine.. an energetic photon coming and hitting an electron.. and giving some of its energy to the electron.. so now the photon has lower energy and hence lower frequency.. !

anonymous · Answer

makes sense what I meant to say is that lower energy photons will not interact with the certain matter or will the interaction simply by negligible ?

anonymous · Answer

do you want the math or video Compton scattering?

anonymous · Answer

ah.. the math would involve relativistic speeds.. :D..

anonymous · Answer

here both math and video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI2C4VlR1OM