Question

5. Chained Stern-Gerlach Analyzers Consider the Stern-Gerlach set-up shown, with a thermal oven" source and some state vectors ) associated with various analyzer outputs 7574 e 7473 lva) 15070 29883 A. How many particles were released from the oven? Calculate it exactly but also make a more conceptual/quick way to determine the (approximate, likely) answer based on just the first ana- lyzer's result. Describe both ways What are ly,.), Ιψο), Iqbe), and lụa)? Write them in terms of It), 1 )2, and 1 %. C. If lVa) were input into a S analyzer, how many particles do you predict would come out of the Sr-th/2 port? Out of the S,--h/2 port?

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