A beam of atoms leaves a magnet reading up and is sent into a second magnet whose…
PHYSICS · Subjective · Fermi University Physics · Quantum Mechanics · Symmetry, angular momentum and spin · Symmetry, angular momentum and spin
Quantum Mechanics: From the Photon to the Hydrogen Atom, Ch Spin one-half, the Pauli matrices and two-level systems
Problem
A beam of atoms leaves a z magnet reading up and is sent into a second magnet whose axis lies in the xz plane at θ=50∘ to z. Find the probability that an atom reads up along this second axis, and the probability that it reads down.