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Are the laws of Classical mechanics a subset of Quantum mechanics?

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Are the laws of Classical mechanics a subset of Quantum mechanics?

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No I don’t think one would classify it that way. Newtonian mechanics came about way before quantum mechanics. However, the correspondence principle says that there is a quantum operator that corresponds to each classical observable. Basically that means that as the systems become more classical (larger) the quantum analysis should converge to the classical mechanics result.

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Classical mechanics is an approximation of quantum mechanics, as h -> 0.

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