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  • adjective Having an odd integer as a numerator and 2 as a denominator. Used of a fraction.

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  • Or as hard as investigating the properties of Fermions, half-integral spin particles that obey the Pauli principle, and Bosons, integral spin particles that don't, or the anomalous magnetic moments of leptons, or the quark structure of matter.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

  • Or as hard as investigating the properties of Fermions, half-integral spin particles that obey the Pauli principle, and Bosons, integral spin particles that don't, or the anomalous magnetic moments of leptons, or the quark structure of matter.

    I've just raced through Jenny Davidson 2005

  • The properties ascribed to electrons, for instance, such as their charge and half-integral spin, were themselves responses to quite specific experimental findings involving discharge tube phenomena and spectra.

    Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century Chalmers, Alan 2005

  • Fermions have half-integral spin and are described by wavefunctions that are antisymmetric in the exchange of two particles, i.e. the wavefunctions change sign when two particles change places, and they follow what is called

    Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1996 1996

  • Particles obeying these would of course have half-integral spin, and the ultimate state would be one in which ghosts of opposite spin had paired up to occupy correctly the energy states available.

    The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG 2009

  • The number '' j '' is integral when '' m '' is integral and half-integral when

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • The discrete quantum number '' m '' is integral or half-integral, depending on whether '' j '' is integral or half-integral.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • '' l '' max − kmax, so that '' b '' is integral or half-integral.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

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