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8.022 Lecture Notes Class 45 - 12/12/2006

The document summarizes the quantum Stern-Gerlach experiment. It heats silver atoms in an oven, collimate the beam, and places it in a homogeneous magnetic field. This causes the silver atoms, which have a possible magnetic moment from their lone 5s electron, to split into two distinct beams depending on their spin state of either +1/2 or -1/2. The experiment was first proposed by Stern in 1921 and conducted by Stern and Gerlach in 1922, demonstrating the quantization of angular momentum.

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8.022 Lecture Notes Class 45 - 12/12/2006

The document summarizes the quantum Stern-Gerlach experiment. It heats silver atoms in an oven, collimate the beam, and places it in a homogeneous magnetic field. This causes the silver atoms, which have a possible magnetic moment from their lone 5s electron, to split into two distinct beams depending on their spin state of either +1/2 or -1/2. The experiment was first proposed by Stern in 1921 and conducted by Stern and Gerlach in 1922, demonstrating the quantization of angular momentum.

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8.

022 Lecture Notes Class 45 - 12/12/2006

Quantum Stern-Gerlach experiment Sterns idea : 1921 Stern, Gerlach did it , 1922 - 2 state system

1. Heat Ag atoms in oven

2. Collimate the beam 3. Put in homogeneous magnetic eld in z 4. ? Ag: 47 e s, 46 are in orbits 1,2,3,4 1 in 5s 5s e : possibly magnetic moment

Fz =

Bz ( B ) = z z z

S+ , S S S = + 2 S =
2

S =

h = 6.5822 1016 eV s 2

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