Sentences with phrase «calling classical mechanics»

It's like calling classical mechanics Newtonism and claiming physicists worship apples.

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States that are mutually exclusive in classical physics can exist simultaneously in the weird world of quantum mechanics — a situation called a superposition.
In addition, it led to the development of quantum probability distributions, called Fermi - Dirac statistics and Bose - Einstein statistics, each applicable to a different class of particle, which are used in quantum mechanics instead of the classical distributions.
Magnetism at the atomic level is driven by quantum mechanics — a fact that has shaken up classical physics calculations and called for increasingly complex, first - principle calculations, or calculations working forward from fundamental physics equations rather than relying on assumptions that reduce computational workload.
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