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Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle: A First Look at Quantum Mechanics and Its Extensions

Marina Giannakopoulou

Published Jan 12, 2026• 0 citations
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Based on the author’s 2024-2025 Middle Years Program Personal Project, the present work introduces Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. It is a product of secondary research, which opts to render quantum mechanics accessible to high-school students. Emphasis is primarily given to wave-particle duality, the de Broglie Hypothesis, state vectors, wavefunctions, probability density, and the Bohr model.

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Abstract This chapter examines some crucial experiments and basic principles of quantum mechanics that have strongly influenced the development of quantum theory in its modern form: starting from Planck’s law of black-body radiation and its derivation using the quantization of energy; Einstein’s photon hypothesis for the puzzle presented by the photoelectric effect and its test via the Millikan experiment; the Compton effect; Bohr’s theses for the structure of the hydrogen atom and the complementarity of waves and particles i.e., the wave-particle duality, culminating in de Broglie’s ideas for matter waves and their confirmation in the Davisson-Germer experiment for electron diffraction from a crystal; Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle for position and momentum as well as for energy an time; the famous double-slit experiment and Born’s probability interpretation, and finally the provocative thought experiment of Schrödinger’s cat