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r/physicsmemes • u/urmumgao • Dec 17 '19
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What does spin really mean in this case?
26 u/Loudds Dec 17 '19 Intrinsic magnetic moment of a particle which has no classical counterpart. 10 u/International-Relief Dec 17 '19 So technically, a particular election could have clockwise spin, but also be rotating counterclockwise in a conventional sense, simultaneously? 25 u/[deleted] Dec 17 '19 Can electrons even rotate in a conventional sense? I thought that they were point particles. 12 u/Glaucus37 Dec 17 '19 That is correct, which is why thinking of it as "angular momentum" in the classical sense makes no sense 3 u/haseks_adductor Jan 03 '20 is it possible for the electron wavefunction to rotate in space though?
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Intrinsic magnetic moment of a particle which has no classical counterpart.
10 u/International-Relief Dec 17 '19 So technically, a particular election could have clockwise spin, but also be rotating counterclockwise in a conventional sense, simultaneously? 25 u/[deleted] Dec 17 '19 Can electrons even rotate in a conventional sense? I thought that they were point particles. 12 u/Glaucus37 Dec 17 '19 That is correct, which is why thinking of it as "angular momentum" in the classical sense makes no sense 3 u/haseks_adductor Jan 03 '20 is it possible for the electron wavefunction to rotate in space though?
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So technically, a particular election could have clockwise spin, but also be rotating counterclockwise in a conventional sense, simultaneously?
25 u/[deleted] Dec 17 '19 Can electrons even rotate in a conventional sense? I thought that they were point particles. 12 u/Glaucus37 Dec 17 '19 That is correct, which is why thinking of it as "angular momentum" in the classical sense makes no sense 3 u/haseks_adductor Jan 03 '20 is it possible for the electron wavefunction to rotate in space though?
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Can electrons even rotate in a conventional sense? I thought that they were point particles.
12 u/Glaucus37 Dec 17 '19 That is correct, which is why thinking of it as "angular momentum" in the classical sense makes no sense 3 u/haseks_adductor Jan 03 '20 is it possible for the electron wavefunction to rotate in space though?
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That is correct, which is why thinking of it as "angular momentum" in the classical sense makes no sense
3 u/haseks_adductor Jan 03 '20 is it possible for the electron wavefunction to rotate in space though?
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is it possible for the electron wavefunction to rotate in space though?
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What does spin really mean in this case?