Construct a diagram like that of Figure 44.18 for the cases when I equals (a) (5)/(2) and (b) 4

Construct a diagram like that of Figure 44.18 for the cases...

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00:01 In this question, we want to construct a similar diagram to 44 .18, where we have various iz components with the same magnitude of nuclear spin i.

00:20 So in this case, we are given that the quantum number, the nuclear spin quantum number i is 5 over 2 and 4.

00:29 We have two different cases let's consider the first case first 5 over 2 over here the mi value can vary from plus 5 over 2 all the way down to minus 5 over 2 right in integer steps therefore the z component of the i just m i times h each bar right so these are the various iz components the overall magnitude of our nucleus spin will be equals to i times i plus 1 square root times hbar in this case is 5 over 2 times 7 over 2 square root times hbar which you'll div us with square root of 35 over 2 each bar now we can start to construct our figure so starting from the origin right it can a nuclear spin can point in three possible positive directions right they all have the same magnitude overall magnitude but they will have different z components something like this right where the z components over here i see this way it goes to 5 over 2 h bar the second one will be equals to 3 over 2 h bar and the third one will be equals to half each bar.

03:04 This would be the same for the negative side.

03:07 It's negative half.

03:09 Negative 3 over 2, and negative 5 over 2.

03:15 This will form a semicircle, because they have the same overall magnitude.

03:23 So they should have magnitude of square root 3 over 35.

03:33 Square root 35 over 2 times hbar.

03:40 Now we move on to the case where we have i equals to 4.

03:49 For i equals to 4 our mi value runs from plus 4 all the way to minus 4.

04:17 Same thing, the magnitude of the nuclear spin would be just i times i plus 1, square root times hbar...