How to Use classical mechanics in a Sentence

classical mechanics

noun

• Think for a moment about Sir Isaac Newton, the father of classical mechanics.
  — Karim Nurani, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• Way back in 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published three laws of motion that formed the foundation for classical mechanics.
  — National Geographic, 21 Nov. 2016
• Most high school students learn about classical mechanics — how objects move and the forces that influence that motion.
  — Dallas News, 17 June 2021
• Malicious actors may also learn to use quantum and classical mechanics in the same hacks.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2020
• Schrödinger drew on his deep knowledge of classical mechanics, and his equation in many ways resembles those used for ordinary waves.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 7 Mar. 2018
• First, most of the world is simply better understood through classical mechanics.
  — Brian Albrecht, National Review, 4 Oct. 2021
• The results obtained defied the rules of classical mechanics, the existence of hidden variables, and agreed with quantum theory.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2022
• Susskind insists that quantum mechanics, although not deterministic in the same way as classical mechanics, still conforms to the minus-first law.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 5 Nov. 2020
• In classical mechanics this type of calculation is easy: To model what happens when two billiard balls collide, just use the numbers specifying the momentum of each ball at the point of collision.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Wired, 20 June 2021
• This is in stark contrast with classical mechanics, where the space of states can get extraordinarily complicated.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2012
• The wild concept uses neural net theory to unify quantum and classical mechanics.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Mar. 2021
• This revolutionary idea led to one of the most explosive periods in the history of science, including Sir Isaac Newton's formulation of classical mechanics.
  — Tim Childers, Popular Mechanics, 10 Dec. 2020
• In physics this is illustrated by the refinements of relativity over classical mechanics.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2013
• This first volume takes us through the traditional pedagogic entry point of classical mechanics, into Newtonian physics with its various formulations, and on to Einstein’s relativistic dynamics.
  — Andrew Crumey, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2022
• Over the past several decades, researchers have achieved a greater understanding of how quantum mechanics inevitably becomes classical mechanics through an interaction between a particle or other microscopic system and its surrounding environment.
  — Wired, 28 July 2019

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