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Communications in Theoretical Physics

Classical Mechanics and Quantum Mechanics

Ren De-Ming

Published May 15, 2004• 1 citation
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Abstract

The Newton equation of motion is derived from quantum mechanics.
DOI
10.1088/0253-6102/41/5/685

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