Question: Need help with the scenario below: The uncertainty principle arises from a common-sense idea: To measure something, you must affect it somehow. For instance, when

Need help with the scenario below:

The uncertainty principle arises from a common-sense idea: To measure something, you must affect it somehow. For instance, when you use a pressure gauge to measure air pressure in a car tire you release a small amount of air into the gauge. The following should be addressed

  1. When you shine a light on an object, the momentum from the photons that make up that light impacts the object. For macroscopic objects, this will have no measurable effect. Describe why this is different for atomic-sized objects.
  2. Suppose you shine a very long wavelength light on one electron and a very short wavelength light on another electron. What differences will you observe?
  3. Why does shining very short wavelength photons on an electron not tell you exactly where the electron is?
  4. Describe two other examples of situations in which measuring something about an object somehow changes it

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