Timeline for Degrees of freedom in Quantum Mechanics
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| Feb 20, 2015 at 20:00 | comment | added | Stan Shunpike | This answers here quora.com/… might be useful. | |
| Dec 23, 2014 at 6:42 | history | edited | bobie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 22, 2014 at 22:55 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 22, 2014 at 22:41 | vote | accept | Roshan Shrestha | ||
| Dec 22, 2014 at 22:18 | comment | added | DanielSank | @CuriousOne: That's a great point about the Earth. Would make a good answer. I tried to make that point in my answer. | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 22:18 | answer | added | DanielSank | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 22:14 | comment | added | CuriousOne | @DanielSank: Sounds like a sound hypothesis with regards to the OP's reasoning. How do we explain the real concept, though? I can attack the same physical system (Earth) in classical mechanics with three, six or 1e38 degrees of freedom and get different results, depending on wether I want to solve the Kepler problem, the Kepler problem with rotation or the Kepler problem including the weather at atomic resolution. | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 22:06 | comment | added | DanielSank | @CuriousOne: I think OP is confused because textbooks always refer to "a quantum particle" as an abstract object, while the term "particle" also more specifically refers to an excitation of a fundamental quantum field, e.g. an electron. OP clearly is not a native English speaker, so it makes sense to reason from that point of view. | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 21:59 | comment | added | CuriousOne | I have no idea how you came up with this particular way of counting degrees of freedom. For one thing, degrees of freedom are model dependent. You can model the same system with different numbers of degrees of freedom, depending on the problem you are trying to solve. Degrees of freedom are well defined in quantum mechanics, but maybe we need to solve your general problems with the term first, before we can start discussing the details? | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 21:44 | history | asked | Roshan Shrestha | CC BY-SA 3.0 |