Classical mechanics describes the motion of macroscopic objects, from projectiles to parts of machinery, and astronomical objects, such as spacecraft, planets, stars and galaxies.
Classical mechanics provides extremely accurate results when studying large objects that are not extremely massive and speeds not approaching the speed of light. When the objects being examined have about the size of an atom diameter, it becomes necessary to introduce the other major sub-field of mechanics: quantum mechanics. To describe velocities that are not small compared to the speed of light, special relativity is needed. In cases where objects become extremely massive, general relativity becomes applicable. However, a number of modern sources do include relativistic mechanics in classical physics, which in their view represents classical mechanics in its most developed and accurate form.
Components of the Book:
- Chapter 1
Real numbers are the hidden variables of classical mechanics
- Chapter 2
Post-buckling of web-core sandwich plates based on classical continuum mechanics: success and needs for non-classical formulations
- Chapter 3
Indeterminism in Physics, Classical Chaos and Bohmian Mechanics: Are Real Numbers Really Real?
- Chapter 4
IZ2×Z2 -graded mechanics: the classical theory
- Chapter 5
An Alternative Interpretation of Statistical Mechanics
- Chapter 6
Interpretive analogies between quantum and statistical mechanics
- Chapter 7
From probabilistic mechanics to quantum theory
- Chapter 8
Quantum mechanics of 4-derivative theories
- Chapter 9
The Nature of the Heisenberg-von Neumann Cut: Enhanced Orthodox Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
- Chapter 10
The Many-Valued Logic of Quantum Mechanics
- Chapter 11
Quantum mechanics, emergence, and decisions
- Chapter 12
Copenhagen Quantum Mechanics Emerges from a Deterministic Schrödinger Theory in 11 Dimensional Spacetime Including Weak Field Gravitation
- Chapter 13
How to Justify the Symmetrization Postulate in Quantum Mechanics
- Chapter 14
A Constructivist View of Newton’s Mechanics
- Chapter 15
Splits in students’ beliefs about learning classical and quantum physics
Readership:
Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in classical mechanics
Jasmin Jelovica
Jasmin Jelovica, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Applied Science Lane, Vancouver Campus, Vancouver, Canada
J. N. Reddy
J. N. Reddy, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Center of Innovation in Mechanics for Design and Manufacturing, Texas A&M University, J. Mike Walker’66, 180 Spence Street, College Station, USA
C. D. McCoy
C. D. McCoy, School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building, Edinburgh, UK
Ashok Narasimhan
Ashok Narasimhan, Associated Faculty, California Institute for Integral Studies, 1453 Mission Street, San Francisco, USA
Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra, Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, USA
Ayush Gupta
Ayush Gupta, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
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