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In this chapter we want to explore the connection between quantum and classical mechanics. We will see that the time derivative of the expectation value for the momentum operator gives us exactly Newton’s second law, which is one of the foundations of classical mechanics.
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Schwichtenberg, J. (2018). Classical Mechanics. In: Physics from Symmetry. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66631-0_10
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