Measurement of Quantum-mechanical Spin-1/2 Systems
Part of the Collection of OSP-based Programs and Curricular Materials for Advanced Physics

OSP curricular material is organized using the OSP Launcher program written by Doug Brown.  Launcher allows us to distribute programs, documentation, and curricular material in a single easily modifiable package.  The OSP Spins Launcher package can be accessed by double clicking on the osp_spins.jar file.  Click on the Exercises button near the bottom of the splash screen in order to load curricular materials for spin-1/2 systems into Launcher.  This material is organized using tabs which appear at the bottom of the program depending on which module is selected.

You may also load modules by using the File | Open Internal menu item and selecting either:

osp_spins: the default, loads the main splash screen.

osp_spins_ex: loads all the spin exercises.

osp_spins_tutorial: loads only the Tutorial tab.

osp_spins_all: loads all the materials.

osp_spins_about: loads the About tab.

Select a tab at the bottom of the Launcher window to navigate to the material located in another tab.

All programs are feely distributable under the GNU GPL license.

Additional information about the OSP project can be obtained from  
http://www.opensourcephysics.org/


Partial funding for this work was obtained through
 an Associated Colleges of the South Teaching with Technology Fellowship
NSF grants DUE-0126439 and DUE-0442581

 

© Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian (2006).