wave mechanics

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Soon afterward, Erwin Schrödinger introduced a different approach known as "wave mechanics."

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

This is not a new observation and standard wave mechanics can describe most of these daily phenomena.

From Science Daily • Oct. 20, 2023

Our understanding of wave mechanics, on which those models are based, is wildly incomplete.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2016

His Nobel Prize achievement, ten years ago, was devising wave mechanics to reconcile the seeming contradictions in the nature of light.

From Time Magazine Archive

The observation excited the attention of the Austrian Erwin Schrödinger, who made some deft refinements and devised a handy system called wave mechanics.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson