Prerequisites for Historic Stern-Gerlach Experiment

  • Familiarity with introductory electromagnetism
  • Familiarity with angular momentum at the introductory level
  • Familiarity with the Bohr model
  • An object with a definite circular orbit has angular momentum
  • a current loop (generated by single electron moving in a circle) will not experience force in a magnetic field appropriate for translation (only for rotation)

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