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. 

The book Open Source Physics: A Users Guide with Examples by W. Christian (Addison Wesley 2007) provides a description of the entire Open Source Physics (OSP) project.

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).