3D Physics - Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

Certain pairs of physical properties, such as:

position and momentum
time and energy

cannot be simultaneously known to arbitrarily high precision.

	approximate	more precise
distance/momentum	Δx Δp < h	σ_xσ_p<= h/2
time/energy	ΔE Δt < h	σ_Eσ_t <= h/2

where:

x = distance
t = time
p = momentum
E = energy
h = (h in h/2 should have line drawn through bar of h)
σ = standard deviation

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