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Lesson Plan: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Physics
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to calculate the minimum uncertainty in the momentum of a particle given the minimum uncertainty in its position, and vice versa.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- use ,
- use .
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- the idea that particles have both particle-like and wavelike properties,
- what muons, electrons, photons, and protons are,
- the terms wavelength and wave number.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- the quantum mechanical origins of the uncertainty principle,
- derivations of the uncertainty principle,
- operators and commutators.
