Acta Scicentiarum Naturalum Universitis Pekinesis

Quantum Mechanics as a Natural Generalization of Classical Statistical Mechanics

Qian Shang-Wu

Published Jan 1, 1994• 0 citations

Abstract

By comparison between equations of motion of geometrical optics(GO)and that of classical statistical mechanics(CSM),we find that there should be an analogy between GO and CSM instead of GO and classical mechanics (CM).Furthermore,by comparison between the classical limit(CL)of quantum mechanics(QM)and CSM,we find that CL of QM is CSM not CM,hence we demonstrate that QM is a natural generalization of CSM instead of CM.

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