What is spin in quantum mechanics?
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What is spin in quantum mechanics?
Spin in Quantum Mechanics:
Within the quantum mechanics framework, spin is defined as an intrinsic property of all sub-atomic particles (such as electrons, positrons, muons, hadrons, and atomic nuclei) and can be viewed as seld-angular momentum process.
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View this answerThe concept of spin was initially devised as a self-rotation of a particle around an axis. Spin is the fourth number of the set of quantum numbers...
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Chapter 28 / Lesson 5Understand what electron spin is and how electron spin leads to the spin quantum number. Explore how this quantum property leads to magnetism.
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