Q.State Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle.
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle states that the position and momentum of a microscopic particle cannot both be measured with perfect precision at the same time; the product of their uncertainties has a fixed lower limit.
For everyday (macroscopic) objects, both position and velocity/momentum can be measured accurately at once without any real limitation. But for extremely small particles such as electrons, which show wave-like behaviour, Werner Heisenberg showed in 1927 that this is fundamentally impossible: any attempt to measure the position of the particle very precisely (small Δx) necessarily disturbs its momentum, making the momentum uncertain (large Δp), and vice versa.
Mathematically, if Δx is the uncertainty in position and Δp is the uncertainty in momentum, then:
Δx . Δp >= h / (4π)
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