Alphabetical

non-relativistic

[adjective]

A physical system where relativistic effects (those involving the theory of relativity) are small enough to be ignored. Usually, this is a system in which nothing is traveling faster than around one percent of the speed of light (aka, c), such as the electron in a hydrogen atom.


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