Exercises for
Spin Precession of Quantum-mechanical Spin-1/2 Systems

 

Unknown Analyzer Precession Exercises

~~1. Determine the polarization of the unknown analyzer(s).  

 

~~2. What orientation of the other analyzer(s), strength and orientation of the magnets, and outcome(s) did you use to determine this?

 

~~3. For the particular orientation in (2), write the initial states emerging from the first ideal Stern-Gerlach analyzer and final states emerging from the second set of ideal Stern-Gerlach analyzers in Dirac notion.  In other words something like:  |z+> or |z−>.  Represent the fraction of the original beam that makes it to each detector in terms of these states.

Repeat this analysis for the remaining analyzers.