College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
7B20.20 - Stern - Gerlach Experiment
- Guangtian Zhu, Chandralekha Singh, "Improving Students' Understanding of Quantum Mechanics Via the Stern-Gerlach Experiment", AJP, Vol 79, # 5, May 2011, p. 499.
- J. Porter, R. F. Pettifer, and D. R. Leadley, "Direct Demonstration of the Stern-Gerlach Effect", AJP, Vol. 71, # 11, Nov. 2003, p. 1103.
- H. Batelaan, "Electrons, Stern-Gerlach Magnets, and Quantum Mechanical Propagation", AJP, Vol. 70, # 3, March 2002, p. 325
- K. Schonhammer, "Stern-Gerlach Measurements with Arbitrary Spin: Quantum Combs", AJP, Vol. 68, # 1, p. 49, Jan. 2000.
- Daniel E. Platt, "A Modern Analysis of the Stern-Gerlach Experiment", AJP, Vol. 60, #4, Apr. 1992, p. 306.
- Preben Alstrom, Poul Hjorth, Richard Mattuck, "Paradox in the Classical Treatment of the Stern-Gerlach Experiment", AJP, Vol. 50, # 8, p. 697, Aug. 1982.
- Melvin D. Daybell, "The New Mexico State University Stern-Gerlach Apparatus", AJP, Vol. 35, # 7, July 1967, p. 637.
- Bretislav Friendrich and Dubley Herschbach, "Stern And Gerlach: How a Bad Cigar Helped Reorient Atomic Physics", Physics Today, Dec. 2003, p. 53
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