nonrelativistic

Adjective

Meaning

Not relativistic; classical, Newtonian

Not moving at a speed comparable to the speed of light.

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Any particles which became nonrelativistic very early, and so were able to diffuse a negligible distance, are termed "cold" dark matter (CDM). Source: Internet

For nonrelativistic particles, the centripetal force required to keep them in their curved path is : where is the particle's mass, its velocity, and is the radius of the path. Source: Internet

In the case of nonrelativistic bound states, the Bethe–Salpeter equation describes the class of diagrams to include to describe a relativistic atom. Source: Internet

It is sometimes said that nonrelativistic physics is a physics of "instantaneous action at a distance". Source: Internet

Pauli introduced the 2 × 2 Pauli matrices as a basis of spin operators, thus solving the nonrelativistic theory of spin. Source: Internet

The nonrelativistic potential, which scatters in all directions with an equal amplitude (in the Born approximation ), is one whose Fourier transform is constant—a delta-function potential. Source: Internet

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