Class Summary          09/15/04

 

09/15               Many Electron Systems

                        Spin

                        Pauli (Exclusion) Principle

 

Pauli (Exclusion) Principle         An acceptable wavefunction does NOT artificially distinguish between electrons or spin states, and the wavefunction must be antisymmetric with respect to exchanging 2 electrons within it.

 

I found a few things about the Pauli Principle and Spin Angular Momentum…

 

Pauli Principle:

 

http://www.halexandria.org/dward149.htm

 

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/pauli.html

 

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030219.html

 

as well as the original reference (in German)

 

PAULI, Wolfgang.                   Uber den Zusammenhang des Abschlusses der Elektronengruppen im atom mit der Komplexstruktur der Spektren

Zeitschrift fur Physik (1925) 31, 765-783.

 

 

Spin…What’s Up With That?

 

http://www.halexandria.org/dward153.htm

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_%28physics%29