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Year 1·Month 15·Week 2

Day 400: The Stern-Gerlach Experiment — Discovery of Spin

Day 400 of 2,016~21 min read

Learning Objectives

•**Describe** the historical context and motivation for the Stern-Gerlach experiment
•**Explain** the experimental setup including the inhomogeneous magnetic field
•**Analyze** why the observation of exactly two spots implies spin-1/2
•**Predict** outcomes of sequential Stern-Gerlach experiments
•**Connect** the Stern-Gerlach apparatus to quantum measurement theory
•**Simulate** beam splitting computationally

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