It made extensive use of heisenberg s papers and files, currently housed in the werner heisenberg archive at the werner heisenberg institute for physics of the max. First, the choice of base e is a matter of popular convention in physics. Heisenberg uncertainty principle physics, quantum mechanics the principle that there is an absolute limit on the combined accuracy of certain pairs of simultaneous, related measurements, especially that of the position and momentum of a particle. He studied physics at the university of munich and for his ph.
Heisenberg uncertainty principle werner heisenberg and. Pdf sur certains aspects du principe dincertitude researchgate. Bohr and heisenberg from copenhagen the city to copenhagen the play gordon baym university of illinois urbana, 27 january 2005 all material in this talk is. Il invoque le principe dincertitude dheisenberg pour contester le p. Physics and philosophy a winner of the nobel prize, werner heisenberg was born in 1901 in wurzberg, germany. Remy and bastien are friends, laidback and soon engineers in the nuclear field. But in this world, there is not good or bad choices. Memoire sur les principes dincertitude universite ferhat abbas. The logarithm can alternatively be in any base, provided that it be consistent on both sides of. Incertitude definition of incertitude by the free dictionary. Interested in niels bohrs account of the planetary atom, heisenberg studied under max born at the. They are about to choose between friendship and career.
In other words, the heisenberg uncertainty principle, is a consequence of the quantum entropic uncertainty principle, but not vice versa. Uncertainty principle, also called heisenberg uncertainty principle or indeterminacy principle, statement, articulated 1927 by the german physicist werner heisenberg, that the position and the velocity of an object cannot both be measured exactly, at the same time, even in theory. The life of werner heisenberg, by the aip center for history of physics. Cassidy and many illustrations describe heisenbergs contributions to quantum physics, especially the discovery of quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle, and his life in. The very concepts of exact position and exact velocity.
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