The degrees of freedom in such instances are described
using classical mechanics.
Not exact matches
The germ of this idea was already known to Whitehead, and to the mathematician F. Klein, both of whom speculated about its
use in
classical mechanics (Whitehead 1898).
Schrödinger drew on his deep knowledge of
classical mechanics, and his equation in many ways resembles those
used for ordinary waves.
Together with an international team of physicists, chemists and mathematicians, the researcher has now discovered an unexpected, promising and novel approach:
Using the tennis racket effect, a well - known phenomenon in
classical mechanics, the consistent alteration in the spin of quanta via electromagnetic control commands can be visualized.
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.
I have already explained here that the models are
using classical thermodynamics to calculate the effects of radiation, rather than quantum
mechanics.