====== Stern-Gerlach Experiment ======


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  * [[http://www.thephysicsmill.com/2015/02/22/the-stern-gerlach-experiment/|Spin and the Stern-Gerlach Experiment]] by The Physics Mill

  
<tabbox Concrete> 

  * The best description can be found in the [[http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_05.html|Feynman Lectures Vol. 3]]
 
<tabbox Abstract> 

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The motto in this section is: //the higher the level of abstraction, the better//.
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<tabbox Why is it interesting?> 

The Stern-Gerlach experiment discovered that elementary particles like, for example, electrons have an unusual internal property called [[basic_notions:spin|spin]]. 
  
<tabbox History> 

  * [[http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/mp/friedrich/PDFs/ptsg.pdf|Stern and Gerlach: How a bad cigar helped reorient atomic physics]]

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