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Recent Examples on the Web There's the Momentum Principle, the wave equation, Schrödinger's equation, and a whole bunch of other stuff. — Rhett Allain, Wired, "Hey Students! Here's How to Deal With School in a Pandemic," 17 Sep. 2020 The solutions to the wave equation describing a particle in this system can be labeled ψA when slit A is open and ψB when slit B is open. — Urbasi Sinha, Scientific American, "Quantum Slits Open New Doors," 7 Jan. 2020 According to his wave equation, macroscopic objects are composed of microscopic atoms and molecules. — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, "In Pursuit of Quantum Biology With Birgitta Whaley," 30 July 2013 Bohr interpreted this probability-wave equation as a complete definition of the particle. — Quanta Magazine, "Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality," 24 June 2014 The wave equation presented by Schrödinger the previous year, Born said, was basically a piece of mathematical machinery for calculating the chances of observing a particular outcome in an experiment. — Quanta Magazine, "Mysterious Quantum Rule Reconstructed From Scratch," 13 Feb. 2019

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