https://gdpark.blog/tags/spin/Recent content in Spin on gdpark.blogHugoenTue, 22 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/quantum-mechanics-22-spin/Mon, 21 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/quantum-mechanics-22-spin/Finally diving into spin — the weird intrinsic angular momentum that has nothing to do with actual rotation, and somehow explains everything anyway.https://gdpark.blog/posts/quantum-mechanics-23-larmor-precession-and-the-stern-gerlach-experiment/Mon, 21 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/quantum-mechanics-23-larmor-precession-and-the-stern-gerlach-experiment/Two must-know QM examples straight from Griffiths — Larmor precession and the Stern-Gerlach experiment — covering how electrons behave inside a magnetic field.https://gdpark.blog/posts/quantum-mechanics-24-addition-of-angular-momenta/Mon, 21 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/quantum-mechanics-24-addition-of-angular-momenta/We finally look at <em>both</em> the proton&rsquo;s and electron&rsquo;s spin together — turns out adding angular momenta is a whole thing, and the uncoupled representation doesn&rsquo;t cut it.https://gdpark.blog/posts/quantum-mechanics-25-clebsch-gordan-coefficients/Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/quantum-mechanics-25-clebsch-gordan-coefficients/A no-panic walkthrough of Clebsch-Gordan coefficient tables — because some absolute lunatic already did all the hard work, and all we have to do is learn to read it.