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Classical physics is physics excluding quantum theory and occasionally excluding relativity as well. Roughly taken, the scale of classical physics is the level of isolated atoms and molecules on upwards, including the macroscopic and astronomical realm. Inside the atom, and among atoms in a molecule, the laws of classical physics break down and generally do not provide a correct description. Moreover, the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation is somewhat limited in its ability to provide correct descriptions, since light is inherently a quantum phenomenon. Unlike quantum physics, classical physics is generally characterized by the principle of complete determinism.

A physical system on the classical level is a physical system in which the laws of classical physics are valid.

Among the branches of theory included in classical physics are:

Classical mechanics
- Newton's laws of motion
- Classical Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms
Classical electrodynamics ( Maxwell's Equations)
Classical thermodynamics
Special theory of relativity and General theory of relativityGeneral relativity (GR or general relativity theory (GRT is the theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915. The conceptual core of general relativity, from which its other consequences largely follow, is the Principle of Equivalence which
Classical chaos theoryChaos theory in mathematics and physics, deals with the behaviour of certain nonlinear dynamical systems that (under certain conditions) exhibit the phenomenon known as chaos most famously characterised by sensitivity to initial conditions (see butterfly and nonlinear dynamics

Mathematically, classical physics equations are generally ones in which Planck's constantPlanck's constant denoted h is a physical constant that is used to describe the sizes of quanta. It plays a central role in the theory of quantum mechanics, and is named after Max Planck, one of the founders of quantum theory. It has a value of approximat does not appear.

The current paradigm of physics is that the fundamental laws of nature are the laws of quantum physics, and that classical theory is the by-product of quantum rules applies to the macroscopic realm. At present, this conjecture is more easily assumed than proven, however, and one of the most vigorous on-going fields of research in physics is classical-quantum correspondence . This field of research is concerned with which is concerned with the discovery of how the laws of quantum physics give rise to classical physics in the limit of the large scales of the classical level.

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