eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2327-6150 2018-07-10 6 7 963 966 10.12691/education-6-7-11 EDUCATION20186711 article Hye Jung Kang hkang@tamut.edu 1 College of Arts, Sciences and Education, Texas A&M University, Texarkana, TX, 75503, USA The wave-particle duality for light has been well established by various experiments, such as Young's double slit experiment and the photoelectric effect. This led de Broglie to propose that a particle also has wave characteristics. Schrödinger further established the wave equation for a moving particle. Many times, quantum mechanics textbooks do not show how Schrödinger's equation was developed in an intuitive manner that is appropriate at the undergraduate level. This article presents a new approach for introducing Schrödinger's equation. This new approach starts with Maxwell's equations and then applies the quantized energy of a light wave and special relativity. This more intuitive approach should help undergraduate students understand the origin of Schrödinger's equation in a more natural way. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/6/7/11/education-6-7-11.pdf wave-particle duality Schr?dinger's equation quantized energy of a light wave special relativity Maxwell's equation