University Laboratory Experiments with PHYWE Equipment
Stern-Gerlach Experiment
The Stern-Gerlach experiment is an important experiment on the deflection of particles, often used to illustrate basic principles of quantum mechanics. It can be used to demonstrate that electrons and atoms have intrinsically quantum properties, and how measurement in quantum mechanics affects the system being measured. The deflection of atoms in an inhomogeneous magnetic field is observed to get a result of its intensity in dependence of the magnitude of the magnetic field.
1922 the physicists Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach observed the quantisation of the magnetic momentum of atoms for the first time.
1943 the Nobel Prize was awarded to Otto Stern for this discovery.
PHYWE provides numerous Nobel Prize Laureate Experiments.
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