Through the Stern-Gerlach experiment, we demonstrate several key concepts about quantum mechanics: quantum mechanics is probabilistic; spin measurements are quantized; quantum measurements disturb the system. We show how to describe the state of a quantum mechanical system mathematically using a ket, which represents all the information we can know about that state.
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