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Q.State Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.

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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 Δx\Delta x is the uncertainty (error) in determining the position and Δp\Delta p is the uncertainty in determining the momentum, then their product cannot be made smaller than a fixed value:

Δx⋅Δp≥h4π\Delta x \cdot \Delta p \geq \frac{h}{4\pi}

where hh is Planck's constant. (Equivalently, using ℏ=h/2π\hbar = h/2\pi, this is often written as Δx⋅Δp≥ℏ/2\Delta x \cdot \Delta p \geq \hbar/2.)

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