Sentences with phrase «as classical mechanics»

Now a faculty member in the Department of Physics at the University Namibia, he spends most of his time teaching courses such as classical mechanics, plasma physics, and astrophysics.

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In consequence, with such models as their objective, physicists frequently formulate the content of quantum mechanics in the language of classically conceived particles and waves, because of certain analogies between the formal structures of classical and quantum mechanics... Accordingly, although a satisfactory uniformly complete interpretation of quantum mechanics based on a single model can not be given, the theory can be satisfactorily interpreted for each concrete experimental situation to which the theory is applied.2

This act allowed each state to establish colleges «where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts.»

Hence, panpsychism categorically rejects as a colossal metaphysical error the entire tradition of atomistic materialism from Democritus to Lucretius to classical Newtonian mechanics.

By contrast, in «near equilibrium» thermodynamic systems, also known as the linear «Onsager regime,» the physical state tends toward maximum disorder (i.e., minimum negative entropy), while maintaining the temporal symmetry of classical Newtonian mechanics.

In such cases, the distance between the negative and positive muons is treated as a classical variable and the remaining degrees of freedom are described by quantum mechanics.

Quantum mechanics govern the behavior of matter at the atomic and subatomic levels in exotic and counterintuitive ways as compared to the everyday world of classical physics.

Classical certainty ceded its stewardship of reality to the probabilistic rule of quantum mechanics, even as the parallel revolution of Einstein's relativity displaced our cherished, absolute notions of space and time.

Unlike classical physics, d'Espagnat explained, quantum mechanics can not describe the world as it really is, it can merely make predictions for the outcomes of our observations.

While the strong sigma or covalent bonds were explained by the new theories of quantum mechanics, hydrogen bonds were seen as nothing more than an electrostatic attraction between charged particles and were explained according the principles of classical physics.

If, after multiple measurements with this experimental setup, scientists found that the measurements of the particles were correlated more than predicted by the laws of classical physics, Kaiser says, then the universe as we see it must be based instead on quantum mechanics.

In 1964, physicist John Bell took on this seeming disparity between classical physics and quantum mechanics, stating that if the universe is based on classical physics, the measurement of one entangled particle should not affect the measurement of the other — a theory, known as locality, in which there is a limit to how correlated two particles can be.

So scientists have tried involving quantum mechanics as well, because information that is encoded into a quantum system behaves differently from a classical system.

She is the author of the monthly column «Musings on Mechanics» for Classical Singer Magazine as well as a widely read and cited blog on vocal technique and fitness, The Liberated Voice.

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So does computing thermodynamics as if mechanics is classical, for that matter.

See Lillian B. Hardwick, Classical Persuasion Through Grammar and Punctuation, 3 J. ALWD 75 (2006)(describing the connection between credibility and writing mechanics as described in legal writing textbooks and beyond).