At my university, in the during lectures and in the equation sheet for our exams, the formula for the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is stated as ΔxΔpx≥h, for example in one of my lecture notes, the following example is illustrated using this formula
However I know that in my textbook (University Physics by Young and Freedman) and pretty much universally the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is stated as ΔxΔpx≥ℏ2. Using this formula, we can see the example above is off by a factor of 4π.
Is the formula, ΔxΔpx≥h, that my university uses a valid formula? If so is just a weaker version of ΔxΔpx≥ℏ2?
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