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If you can only accurately know the position OR the momentum, is acceleration well-defined?



Sure, ignore the position, just focus on the rate of change of momentum with respect to time.


Well, 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…




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