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OK I just have one more question haha.
Question:
Consider the original Stern-Gerlach experiment employing an atomic beam of silver, for which the magnetic moment is due entirely to the spin of the single valence electron of the silver atom. Assuming the magnetic field B has a magnitude 0.500 T, compute the energy difference in electron volts of the silver atoms in the two exiting beams.
What I've done:
So we're looking at an electron, which has a spin quantum number of s=1/2.
So the z component of the spin angular momentum will be.
Sz = ms*hbar
Where ms is the spin magnetic quantum number. There are two different orientations of 1/2 and -1/2 that result in the different defelctions of the beams.
So the energy for ms = 1/2 is:
E = (1/2)*hbar*(e/2m)*g*B
And for ms = -1/2
E = (-1/2)*hbar*(e/2m)*g*B
To find the energy difference I subtracted the two energies, which yielded:
deltaE = hbar*(e/2m)*g*B
e is the charge of the electron and m is the mass of the electron and g is the g factor (g = 2.00232).
So the above equation can now be expressed as
deltaE = Ub*g*B
Where Ub is the bohr magneton.
But this answer is wrong. It would work out if I didn't use the refined value of g and just used 2.
What am I doing wrong?
Cheers
Question:
Consider the original Stern-Gerlach experiment employing an atomic beam of silver, for which the magnetic moment is due entirely to the spin of the single valence electron of the silver atom. Assuming the magnetic field B has a magnitude 0.500 T, compute the energy difference in electron volts of the silver atoms in the two exiting beams.
What I've done:
So we're looking at an electron, which has a spin quantum number of s=1/2.
So the z component of the spin angular momentum will be.
Sz = ms*hbar
Where ms is the spin magnetic quantum number. There are two different orientations of 1/2 and -1/2 that result in the different defelctions of the beams.
So the energy for ms = 1/2 is:
E = (1/2)*hbar*(e/2m)*g*B
And for ms = -1/2
E = (-1/2)*hbar*(e/2m)*g*B
To find the energy difference I subtracted the two energies, which yielded:
deltaE = hbar*(e/2m)*g*B
e is the charge of the electron and m is the mass of the electron and g is the g factor (g = 2.00232).
So the above equation can now be expressed as
deltaE = Ub*g*B
Where Ub is the bohr magneton.
But this answer is wrong. It would work out if I didn't use the refined value of g and just used 2.
What am I doing wrong?
Cheers