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In relation to the correspondence principle, what happens when the orbital magnetic quantum number $m_\ell$ is very large?
If for each value of the orbital quantum number $\ell$ there are $2\ell+1$ possible associated magnetic quantum numbers $m_\ell$, and they are interpreted as the only allowed orientations that the $...
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Does spin really have no classical analogue?
It is often stated that the property of spin is purely quantum mechanical and that there is no classical analog. To my mind, I would assume that this means that the classical $\hbar\rightarrow 0$ ...
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