Okay! Thank you very much for the well-written reply! Like I said, I really appreciate you help :) I feel like I finally understand most of this, except how I'm supposed to answer the question, as I'm still a bit confused about exactly what that pertubation matrix represents: it says that it's...
Oh, sorry, I thought you meant that the values were wrong!
Okay, I think I'm beginning to understand, but I'm still confused as to how you'd calculate the total magnetic moment in this problem. Is it just m_F*hbar*g+mu_i? If this is the case, then the total amount of beams hydrogen would...
Hmm, that's odd. Our professor thought that the problem was a bit too tricky and gave us some extra info: he said that the perturbation is the sum of the hyper fine and Zeeman energy, and that the perturbation matrix in the coupled basis is given by
$$ W =
\begin{matrix}
\mu_B B + A/4 & 0 &...
"Calculated the total magnetic moment of a hydrogen atom in the ground state in a weak magnetic field which arises from hyper fine splitting of the ground state. How many beams does hydrogen produce from a Stern-Gerlach analyzer with a weak magnetic field?"
I've calculated the magnetic moments...