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Spin One Particle Rotates Like a Vector, y-axis

InĀ The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume 3 Chapter 5, Feynman poses a challenge to the reader: show that a particular combination of plus, minus and zero states of a spin one particle transforms under a rotation just like a vector does. In this previous video I reviewed the details of proving it for rotations around the z-axis. Here I go over the more complicated proof for rotations around the y-axis.

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