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...classical or Newtonian mechanics have not been invalidated by the rise of the new physics but exist as a limiting case of atomic theory, this limiting case being the physics of large-scale bodies...
Along with the new mechanics founded by Heisenberg, the new physics incorporated Newtonian physics in a general form. However, the consequence of this new formulation is that in a very fundamental way, our ability to measure certain properties is limited...
Oppenheimer also showed how the quantum phenomena and the Newtonian description of physics, though mutually exclusive, are both useful and essentially correct...
...great clash between Newtonian mechanics and atomic theory which developed around the turn of the century provided an excellent example of the continual need for transcending existing concepts and definitions, he said...
Considering the first topic, Oppenheimer pointed out that Newtonian mechanics had been enormously successful in application to the effects of gravitational forces, but they were unable to explain the constant shape and, in general, size of the electon orbits...