Mechanics

Mechanics (from Ancient Greek: μηχανική, mēkhanikḗ, lit. "of machines")[1][2] is the area of mathematics and physics concerned with the relationships between force, matter, and motion among physical objects.[3] Forces applied to objects result in displacements, which are changes of an object's position relative to its environment.

Theoretical expositions of this branch of physics has its origins in Ancient Greece, for instance, in the writings of Aristotle and Archimedes[4][5][6] (see History of classical mechanics and Timeline of classical mechanics). During the early modern period, scientists such as Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Christiaan Huygens, and Isaac Newton laid the foundation for what is now known as classical mechanics.

As a branch of classical physics, mechanics deals with bodies that are either at rest or are moving with velocities significantly less than the speed of light. It can also be defined as the physical science that deals with the motion of and forces on bodies not in the quantum realm.

  1. ^ "mechanics". Oxford English Dictionary. 1933.
  2. ^ Henry George Liddell; Robert Scott (1940). "mechanics". A Greek-English Lexicon.
  3. ^ Young, Hugh D.; Roger A. Freedman; A. Lewis Ford; Katarzyna Zulteta Estrugo (2020). Sears and Zemansky's university physics: with modern physics (15th ed.). Harlow: Pearson Education. p. 62. ISBN 978-1-292-31473-0. OCLC 1104689918.
  4. ^ Dugas, Rene. A History of Classical Mechanics. New York, NY: Dover Publications Inc, 1988, pg 19.
  5. ^ Rana, N.C., and Joag, P.S. Classical Mechanics. West Petal Nagar, New Delhi. Tata McGraw-Hill, 1991, pg 6.
  6. ^ Renn, J., Damerow, P., and McLaughlin, P. Aristotle, Archimedes, Euclid, and the Origin of Mechanics: The Perspective of Historical Epistemology. Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2010, pg 1-2.

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