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  • particle—the wave-particle duality of quantum physics. The wave "tells ... The charged leptons have two possible spin states, while only one helicity ...
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  • several bosons can occupy the same quantum state. Thus, bosons with ... mesons. All observed bosons have integer spin, as opposed to fermions, which ...
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  • quarks.Quarks and antiquarks that impart quantum numbers to hadrons are called ... Like all subatomic particles, hadrons have quantum numbers corresponding ...
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  • angular momentum is distributed between the spin of the planet itself and the ... :\mathbf{L}_{\mathrm{total}} = \mathbf{L}_{\mathrm{spin}} + \mathbf{L}_{ ...
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  • is that mesons are bosons having an integer spin, while baryons are fermions ... Pseudoscalar mesons (spin 0), where the quark and antiquark have opposite ...
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  • bosons is related to a property known as "spin." ... Fermions have odd half-integer spin (1/2, 3/2, 5/2, and so forth) ...
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  • Protons are spin-1/2 fermions and are composed of three quarks, making ... numbers of protons and neutrons. The number of protons in the nucleus ...
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  • arise from an imbalance in the total number of electrons and protons ... represented as e−. The electron has spin ½, which implies it is a ...
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  • the "wave-particle duality" of quantum physics. The particle aspect ... == Quantum spin and probability == All particles (fundamental and composite ...
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  • Philosophers have long been preoccupied with using the least number ... indeterminism traces to the success of quantum physics, or more accurately ...
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  • it is a subatomic particle with a baryon number of 1. Baryons are a subset ... Each baryon has an odd half-integer spin (such as 1|2 or ...
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  • basic components, an essentially unlimited number of composite particles can ... With the development of quantum theory, chemistry began to be explained ...
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  • which carry properties called charges and spin 1/2 (intrinsic angular momentum ... of angular momentum, the fermion's spin direction will flip from ...
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  • particles that make up all matter. It is a quantum field theory developed between ... and particle--the wave-particle duality of quantum physics. The wave tells ...
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  • driving forces behind the development of quantum mechanics. In quantum mechanics ... define orbitals, as well as s, or spin quantum number. Thus, two electrons ...
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  • The Rutherford model worked quite well until studies of nuclear spin ... suggested that neutrons were in fact spin 1/2 particles and that the ...
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  • magnetic dipoles are by current loops or quantum-mechanical spin since the ... are magnetic dipoles in the form of the quantum-mechanical spin associated ...
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  • begins with a focus on "coordination number," the number of ligands ... to 32 electrons). The maximum coordination number for a certain metal is thus ...
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  • as lasers, Bose–Einstein condensation, quantum field theory, and the probabilistic ... photons have been studied as elements of quantum computers and for sophisticated ...
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  • D. As an isotope of hydrogen with mass number 2, it is also represented ... solution. Because deuterium's nuclear spin properties differ from those ...
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