Mechanics

science concerned with physical bodies subjected to forces or displacements From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mechanics
Remove ads

Mechanics is a branch of physics which looks at objects that are moved by forces (including other bodies, or forces of nature). A person working in this discipline is known as a mechanician.

Mechanics started in ancient Greece where Aristotle studied how things moved when they were thrown through the air. Since then Galileo, Kepler and Newton figured out a lot more about mechanics.

Thumb
Animation of Newton's cradle from Newton's book Principia Mathematica.
Remove ads

Significance

Mechanics started out as the study of parts of the world that are big enough for humans to see them. Mechanics studies the movement of all Matter in the universe. It studies gravity, strong and weak interactions, and Electromagnetism.

Different Types of classical mechanics

Newton

Newton proposed three laws of motion.

  1. An object will stay at a constant speed unless a force acts on it.
  2. F= Ma: the overall force acting on an object is the mass of the object times the object's acceleration.
  3. For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction.

Quantum mechanics

The following are categorized as being part of Quantum mechanics:

Remove ads

Other websites

Blogs:

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads