Q.State Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →At the microscopic (atomic) scale, a particle's position and momentum cannot both be measured with unlimited precision at the same time - the product of their uncertainties has a fundamental lower limit.
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Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle states that it is fundamentally impossible to measure, simultaneously and with arbitrary accuracy, both the position and the momentum of a microscopic particle (such as an electron). If is the uncertainty (error) in determining the position and is the uncertainty in determining the momentum, then their product cannot be made smaller than a fixed value:
where is Planck's constant. (Equivalently, using , this is often written as .)
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