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Can I read Dealing with Counts and Other Quantal Quantities in Quantity Calculus on EtoBox?
Dealing with Counts and Other Quantal Quantities in Quantity Calculus by David Flater is a Engineering article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Dealing with Counts and Other Quantal Quantities in Quantity Calculus about?
Continuity is usually assumed as a defining feature of measured quantities. This premise is false for counted quantities, amount of substance, electric charge, and others that are constrained to exist in integral multiples of a quantum. A software application that treats these quantities as continuous can predict outcomes that are physically impossible, such as the production of half a photon. Thus far, formalizations of quantity calculus have not addressed how quantities that are structured like the integers should interoperate with continuous quantities. This article introduces the extension of quantity calculus to include quantal quantities, which vary in steps rather than continuously, and discusses the consequences of including them.
Who reads Dealing with Counts and Other Quantal Quantities in Quantity Calculus?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Engineering.
- Author
- David Flater
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Engineering (Physical Sciences)