Monday, April 12
if you have time, after you return, you might read up -- in a
intro physics text -- about angular momentum and torque...
will explore angular momentum and torque and the spin
of a bicycle wheel, before starting electron spin on tuesday...
Tuesday, April 13 electron spin, sections 1 of chapter 8
Thursday, April 15 electron spin, sections 2 of chapter 8
Tuesday, April 13
have decided on a method to measure (e/m) for electron
and shown it to me
Goudsmit
and Uhlenbeck hypothesize Electron Spin a gem!
Otto Stern (but not Gerlach) wins the Nobel Prize in Physics 1943 for their 1921 experiment
Biography of Polykarp Kusch who measured the precise value of the electron's magnetic moment