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Demystifying the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

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The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is one of the most non-intuitive concepts in all of quantum mechanics. It says that it is impossible to precisely know both an object's location and its motion. Know one well and you must know the other poorly. The origins of this are deeply tied to the wave nature of matter and the connection between waves and momentum. In this video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln sorts it all out.

Fourier transform square wave:
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/FourierSeriesSquareWave.html

Fourier transform gaussian:
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/FourierTransformGaussian.html

Additional Fourier transform explainer:
https://mriquestions.com/fourier-transform-ft.html

Wavelength, momentum, and wave number:
http://faculty.chas.uni.edu/~shand/Mod_Phys_Lecture_Notes/Chap6_Matter_Waves_Notes_s12.pdf

Wave Function video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0VY9_hB_WU

Deriving Heisenberg:
http://math.uchicago.edu/~may/REU2021/REUPapers/Dubey.pdf

Fermilab physics 101:
https://www.fnal.gov/pub/science/particle-physics-101/index.html

Fermilab home page:
https://fnal.gov

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