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In the Classroom
Single-Slit Diffraction and the Uncertainty Principle
Frank Rioux
College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, Collegeville, MN 56321
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August 2005
Vol. 82 No. 8
p. 1210
Abstract
This short article emphasizes that a consideration of diffraction phenomena is an excellent way to illustrate the uncertainty principle. Or, it could also be claimed that diffraction has a simple quantum mechanical interpretation based on the uncertainty principle and the Fourier transform between position and momentum space.
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*  Citation
 Rioux, Frank. J. Chem. Educ. 2005 82 1210.
*  Keywords
 Computational Chemistry; Computer-Based Learning; Mathematics / Symbolic Mathematics; Physical Chemistry; Quantum Chemistry; Theoretical Chemistry; Upper-Division Undergraduate
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Last Updated:		 July 5, 2005
July 8, 2005
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