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

Other examples are theories of wave mechanics in which the electron is "arbitrarily smeared in a large spatial region around the atom" or made to "dance round the atom in an irregular manner."

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