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Spin Particles

Crash
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Just wondering if anybody can explain the true meaning behind the "spin" of particles e.g electrons are spin 1/2, while other particles have a spin of 0,1,2

I know that the word "spin" is only the name and not an actual description.....Cheers

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Ah cheers dude

  • 2 months later...

it's the angular momentum left over after orbital angular momentum is accounted for, it looked like spinning so they called it spin

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