Improving student understanding of addition of angular momentum in quantum mechanics

Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Zhu, Guangtian ^a,b   Singh, Chandralekha ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 84873117403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15549178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.9.010101     Document Type: Article

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