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    This document discusses the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and its origins. It introduces de Broglie's hypothesis that particles can be described as waves, and describes Davisson-Germer's experiment demonstrating the wave nature of electrons. It then discusses how a particle's position and momentum, or its energy and time, cannot be precisely known simultaneously according to the uncertainty principle. The uncertainty relations reveal that the more precisely one property is measured, the less precisely the corresponding conjugate property is known.

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    Chapter 7 THE HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE

    Tjipto Prastowo, Ph.D Endah Rahmawati, M.Si

    De Broglie Hypothesis
    The equivalence between a) a moving particle of mass m and speed v0 and b) a wave packet of wavelength and speed vg

    Mathematical expression of de Broglie hypothesis

    Davisson-Germers Experiment

    The Davisson-Germers experimental apparatus, used for examining the wave nature of an electron by elastically scattering a beam of low speed electrons from a polycrystalline nickel target.

    Space domain

    The idealised profile of


    a) b)

    Cosine pulse of width 2L and amplitude E0 Its fourier transform with a carrier spatial frequency kp in the space domain

    Time domain

    The idealised profile of


    a) b)

    Cosine pulse of width 2T and amplitude E0 Its fourier transform with a carrier temporal frequency in the space domain

    Interpretation of the Heisenberg Uncertainty

    Momentum-position uncertainty relation

    Energy-time uncertainty relation

    What do the uncertainty relations tell us?

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