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Tree diagram
The term
tree diagram
is used in different ways in different disciplines.
In
physics
, a
tree diagram
is an
acyclic
connected
Feynman diagram
. The word
tree
is used just as in
graph theory
. A tree diagram corresponds to the results obtained from
classical physics
in which the effects of
quantum mechanics
are ignored. One does not need to perform any
integrals
to calculate a tree diagram. The full result for the
physical quantity
must however include
one-loop Feynman diagrams
and also more complicated diagrams.
In
linguistics
, a
tree diagram
is one way to visually represent the structure of a sentence. See
Sentence diagramming
.
Another way is the traditional
Reed-Kellogg sentence diagram
.
Last updated: 05-08-2005 04:32:37