Exercises for
Multiple Measurements of Quantum-mechanical Spin-1/2 Systems

The curricular material uses the OSP Spins program to show the effect of measurement on an ensemble of spin-1/2 particles.  In the virtual experiment, a beam of spin-1/2 particles leaves an oven incident on one or multiple ideal analyzers (ideal Stern-Gerlach apparatus) the result of which is detected as a click on a detector.

Before performing these virtual experiments it is important to first look over the tutorial and the tutorial exercises.

Note: For these exercises, the incident beam contains particles with randomly oriented spin orientations incident on two ideal Stern-Gerlach analyzers.  The first analyzer is of fixed orientation (black) and the second analyzer can be changed by clicking on it (blue).

 

Navigate to the exercises within this directory to access the exercises and the simulations.