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What is quantum Mechanics?

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The Wikipedia article on the subject might be of interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics

Answer 2

the study of how electrons arange themselves within the attoms of diffrerent elements, and how much energy is involved in the reactions between elements. Quantum mechanics can also be used to determin which elements will bond and how they will do so.

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Answer 5

Do you know what is Classical or Newtonian Mechanics?

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no

Answer 7

this is classical mechanics.. and beyond this there lies quantum mechanics.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_mechanics

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Answer 9

Quantum mechanics or quantum physics is a physical theory formulated in the first half of the twentieth century which successfully describes the behavior of matter at small distance scales.

It explains and quantifies three effects that classical physics cannot account for:

The values of some measurable variables of a system, most notably the total energy of a bounded system, can attain only certain discrete values determined by the system. (The smallest possible jumps in the values of those observables are called "quanta" (Latin quantum, quantity), hence the name quantum mechanics.)
Matter, classically described purely in terms of discrete particles moving in definite trajectories, exhibits properties of waves (see wave-particle duality).
Certain pairs of observables, for example the position and momentum of a particle, can never be simultaneously ascertained to arbitrary precision (see Heisenberg's uncertainty principle).

The correspondence principle states that quantum mechanics agrees with the predictions of classical physics for large systems.