Transcription of PHYSICS 430 Lecture Notes on Quantum Mechanics
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Although classical mechanics is now regarded as only an approximation to quan-tum mechanics, it is still true that much of the structure of the quantum theory is inherited from the classical theory that it replaced. So we begin with a lightning review of classical mechanics, whose formulation begins (but does not end!) with Newton’s law F = ma.
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