The arrow, despite projecting like a particle, is also a wave in how it flexes. It goes "through" the bow's wood[1] by having just the right wavelength for this vibration mode that its nodes point it toward the target rather than letting the arrow project along a line tangent to the wood.
Does that analogy of the dynamic work?
[1] don't know the technical term; best I could find was "back" or "belly"
And regarding the particle wave duality -- not so much. The interesting part of the particle wave duality is that the "waveicles" actually act like waves in the ocean, spreading in all directions, interfering with each other, diffracting and reflecting, and so on. It gets even weirder when you ask what they are waves of: They're more or less waves of probability of finding the particle.
I don't acutally know of a good analogy for it; I've only ever successfully thought about it in terms of a mind game, instead of a 'real' physical analogy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8&feature=youtu.be...
So the wood of the bow is called ...?
>And regarding the particle wave duality -- not so much. The interesting part of the particle wave duality is that the "waveicles" actually act like waves in the ocean, spreading in all directions, interfering with each other, diffracting and reflecting, and so on. It gets even weirder when you ask what they are waves of: They're more or less waves of probability of finding the particle.
What I mean is, it's like the "weird" effects in the two-slit setup: the wavelength and barrier locations (and direction the light is shot) determine the locations of constructive interference. The arrow ends up going one direction rather than others -- bypassing barriers in the process -- for basically the same reason.
You get a good consolation prize though, because it is a little like quantum tunneling which is in the same neighborhood as the double-slit experiment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunneling
In the tunneling case what's "waving" would again be (I believe) the probability density function, but it's definitely a case of a particle using some sort of waviness to pass through a classically impossible boundary.