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

[Screen Shot: A sample spins experiment illustrating spin precession due to an added B field.]

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 single measurements of spins-1/2 systems in quantum mechanics. 

Select the Tutorial or Spin Precession tab at the bottom of this window to navigate to the tutorial or the exercises.

The book Open Source Physics: A Users Guide with Examples by W. Christian (Addison Wesley 2007) provides a description of these programs and 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).