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dtgriscom
on Oct 12, 2022
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Students break acceleration world record for elect...
If you can only accurately know the position OR the momentum, is acceleration well-defined?
ben_w
on Oct 12, 2022
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Sure, ignore the position, just focus on the rate of change of momentum with respect to time.
labcomputer
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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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