8: Intrinsic Angular Momentum – "Spin"

Physics 9HC: Introduction to Waves, Physical Optics, and Quantum Theory · LibreTexts

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    • 8.1: Measuring Angular Momentum
      We have an operator for the z-component and magnitude-squared of angular momentum, and these have real eigenvalues, so they must be measurable, but exactly how do we do that?
    • 8.2: It's Not Rotating!
      Quantum mechanics is the theory of the very small, but we could always visualize some kind of macroscopic classical analog... until now.
    • 8.3: Fermions and Bosons
      Every elementary particle in existence comes in one of two varieties.
    • 8.4: Statistics of Identical Particles
      Fermions and bosons differ in an even more fundamental way than the value of their spins. It is not an understatement to say that the whole structure of the universe depends upon this critical difference.

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