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Subject: What's the correct form of Heisenberg's uncertaint

Date: Thu Dec 7 13:11:17 2000
Posted by Flavio
Grade level: undergrad School: No school entered.
City: No city entered. State/Province: No state entered. Country: Brazil
Area of science: Physics
ID: 976212677.Ph
Message:

All over the internet and more recently, on 2 books co-authored by the same
physicist (Robert Resnick; _Quantum Physics_ and _Fundamentals of Physics
Extended_) I've seen the standard form of the Heisenberg principle be
expressed in the 2 following ways:

delta_x * delta_p >= h-bar
delta_x * delta_p >= h-bar/2

Is there a correct one or both are right, one being simply stricter than
the other in some situation?

In any case, what is the reason for this disparity?

Thanks,

Flavio


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