Oscar_Cunningham comments on Classical Configuration Spaces - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 17 September 2015 01:23:22PM 0 points [-]

To clarify (seven years later), "configuration space" is the name physicists use for the space recording just the particle's positions, and "phase space" is the name for the space recording their positions and momentums.