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If you can only accurately know the position OR the momentum, is acceleration well-defined?
by dtgriscom 4y ago
If you can only accurately know the position OR the momentum, is acceleration well-defined?
- ben_w 4y agoSure, ignore the position, just focus on the rate of change of momentum with respect to time.
- labcomputer 4y agoWell, that doesn’t quite work either. Energy and time are also conjugate variables, so there exists an uncertainty relationship between them. And since you can relate energy to momentum in a well defined way…