The magnet involved in this experiment possessed a channel whose bottom was flat, but whose top took the form of a knife-edge, thus greatly increasing the magnetic field at the top.
The magnet involved in this experiment possessed a channel whose bottom was flat, but whose top took the form of a knife-edge, thus greatly increasing the magnetic field at the top. The target was a cold glass plate, which in the absence of a non-homogeneous magnetic field would reveal a single thin line produced by the beam of neutral silver atoms directed through a series of aligned slits. However, in the presence of a non-homogeneous magnetic field, two thin lines were produced. Conducted in 1920, FTP, what was this experiment named for the two scientists who thus demonstrated the existence of space quantization?
The magnet involved in this experiment possessed a channel whose bottom was flat, but whose top took the form of a knife-edge, thus greatly increasing the magnetic field at the top.
Stern-Gerlach experiment