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

[Screen Shot: A sample spins experiment using two sequential ideal Stern-Gerlach apparatus.]

OSP Spins Launcher Package by Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian
OSP Spins Java Program by Wolfgang Christian

Original Spins Macintosh Program by Daniel Schroeder and Thomas Moore [Am. J. Phys. 61, 798 (1993)]
Original SPINS Java Program by David McIntyre

This Launcher package (in the form of an executable java archive or jar file) contains ready-to-run OSP programs and a set of curricular materials for the teaching of measurement of spins-1/2 systems in quantum mechanics.  Select a button below to begin:

Exercises:  loads all the spin exercises,
Single Measurement, Multiple Measurement and Spin Precession

Tutorial: loads an interactive self-contained tutorial on spin-1/2 systems. 
This tutorial contains the necessary theory required to understand and complete the exercises.

About: loads an overview of the curricular materials,
describes the SPINS and Launcher programs, and gives author credits and version information.

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).