2009/12/27 by Gerald E. Marsh
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Classical mechanics #Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies #Geometry #Mathematics #Motion (physics) #Perspective (graphical) #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum mechanics #Statistical physics #Theoretical physics #physics.gen-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.4006/1.3354977
published as Physics Essays Vol. 23, p. 2 (2010) · 17 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 2009/12/27 · openalex publication_date 2010/05/06 · arxiv updated 2015/05/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Abstract. This essay is an attempted to address, from a modern perspective, the motion of a particle. Quantum mechanically, motion consists of a series of localizations due to repeated interactions that, taken close to the limit of the continuum, yields a world-line. If a force acts on the particle, its probability distribution is accordingly modified. This must also be true for macroscopic objects, although now the description is far more complicated by the structure of matter and associated surface physics.