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Also Known As indeterminacy principle • Heisenberg uncertainty principle

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Understanding Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in subatomic particles
Understand the uncertainty principle as defined by the properties of waves
Heisenberg uncertainty principle
Understand Albert Einstein's perspective of disagreement about the element of uncertainty of quantum theory
Know about the element of uncertainty of nature in Niels Bohr's interpretation of quantum theory and its success despite Albert Einstein's objections
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