yosoyelkoch: What is the difference between quantum physics and quantum mechanics?
Are they synonyms? What would you expect to study on a college course called quantum physics? And in one called quantum mechanics?
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Answer by Nanc
As far as I know they’re the same. You’re gonna be studying particles at subatomic level. The mechanic part is the calculation and all. Quantum physics cover all of the quantum theory.
Yes they are synonyms. If a school offered two courses with those names, I’d read the course catalog to see what the course includes. One might be for physics majors and introduce how to DO quantum mechanics. The other might be for “laypeople” and just teach ABOUT quantum mechanics–a much less rigorous proposition.
My undergraduate quantum physics series was called “Physics of the atom”.
Answer by Y2HQuantum physics deal with subatomic-level energies in general where Quantum mechanics mainly aims at studying the behavior of the sub-atomic particles and their wave natures.
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