What Causes Measurement Errors?

What Causes Measurement Errors? Now that we know the types of measurement errors that can occur, what factors lead to errors when we take measurements? We can separate this category into 2 basic categories: instrument and operator errors. Human errors are not always blunders however since some mistakes are a result of inexperience in trying to make a particular measurement or trying to investigate a particular problem. Even if we know about...

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Six Postulates of Quantum Physics

Postulates of Quantum Mechanics In this section, we will present six postulates of quantum mechanics. Again, we follow the presentation of McQuarrie [1], with the exception of postulate 6, which McQuarrie does not include. A few of the postulates have already been discussed in section 3. Postulate 1. The state of a quantum mechanical system is completely specified by a function  that depends on the coordinates of the particle(s)...

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