macroscopic object
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macroscopic
adjective
uk/ˌmæk.rəˈskɒp.ɪk/us/ˌmæk.rəˈskɑː.pɪk/
large enough to be seen without using any devices that make things ...
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object
noun
uk/ˈɒb.dʒɪkt/us/ˈɑːb.dʒɪkt/
a thing that you can see or touch but that is not usually a living animal, plant, ...
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So the light reflected by themacroscopicobjectwill always contain a specular component.
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Like any othermacroscopicobjectsitting in the lipid flow, they are thus pushed backward.
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When the mass is very large like amacroscopicobject, the uncertainties and thus the quantum effect become very small, and classical physics is applicable.
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A thermodynamic system is amacroscopicobject, the microscopic details of which are not explicitly considered in its thermodynamic description.
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His work in mesoscopic physics addresses fundamental physical problems that occur when amacroscopicobjectis miniaturized.
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Of course, there must be some sense in which macroscopic objects are built out of microscopic constituents and in which they are supervenient on the properties of the constituents.
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For macroscopic objects, however, the nonlinear modification becomes important and induces the collapse of the wavefunction.
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These three laws hold to a good approximation for macroscopic objects under everyday conditions.
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Yet gravitation is very important for macroscopic objects and over macroscopic distances for the following reasons.
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The idea that macroscopic objects may follow the laws of quantum mechanics dates back to the advent of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century.
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The process explains why we tend not to observe quantum behaviour in everyday macroscopic objects.
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Such situations are encountered in radar scattering as well, where the targets tend to be macroscopic objects such as people or aircraft.
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The fragility of quantum effects in macroscopic objects may arise from rapid quantum decoherence.
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This involves introducing a new notion of macroscopic objects as quantum "kinds", instead of classical "objects".
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J s, and therefore this quantization does not noticeably affect the angular momentum of macroscopic objects.
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Both mesoscopic and macroscopic objects contain a large number of atoms.
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In quantum mechanics, particles are treated differently from the macroscopic objects of classical mechanics.
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For most macroscopic objects, this wavelength is so short that it is not meaningful to assign a wavelength to them.
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Gravitation dominates for macroscopic objects because they are electrostatically neutral to a very high degree.
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Classical mechanics describes the motion of macroscopic objects, from projectiles to parts of machinery, as well as astronomical objects, such as spacecraft, planets, stars, and galaxies.
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