"Classical mechanics is a physical theory describing the motion of macroscopic objects, from projectiles to parts of machinery and astronomical objects, such as spacecraft, planets, stars, and galaxies."
Study of forces acting on and within structures that are in a state of motion or movement.
Kinematics: The study of motion in objects.
Dynamics: The study of forces and their effects on objects.
Newton's Laws: The laws describing the relation between forces and motion.
Friction: The force that opposes motion of an object.
Mass and weight: The properties of objects related to their gravitational force and acceleration.
Center of mass: The point where a body can be balanced in any orientation.
Momentum: The measure of a body's motion.
Work, Energy, and Power: The principles that describe the transfer of energy during motion.
Conservation Laws: The principles that describe how energy and momentum are conserved during motion.
Waves: The study of the propagation of mechanical disturbances through a medium.
Vibrations: The oscillation or repetitive motion of a body around an equilibrium position.
Dynamic Analysis: The process of evaluating the forces acting on a system and predicting how it will behave over time.
Static Analysis: The process of evaluating the forces acting on a system that is not in motion.
Structural Dynamics: The analysis of the behavior of structures under dynamic loading and vibrations.
Earthquake Engineering: The study of the effects of earthquakes on buildings and how to design structures that can withstand them.
Statics: The branch of mechanics concerned with the study of objects at rest.
Kinetics: The branch of mechanics concerned with the study of objects in motion.
Structural Dynamics: The study of the response of structures to dynamic loads such as wind or earthquakes.
Forced Vibration: The vibration caused by an external force, like wind or an earthquake, acting on a structure.
Free Vibration: The vibration that occurs in a structure due to its inherent properties, without any external forces acting on it.
Earthquake Dynamics: The study of the behavior of structures subject to earthquake forces.
Wind Dynamics: The study of the effects of wind on structures, including aerodynamic forces, buffeting, and vortex shedding.
Wave Dynamics: The study of the behavior of structures subject to wave forces, including structural response and wave attenuation.
Impact Dynamics: The study of the behavior of structures subject to sudden, high-intensity forces, such as those resulting from explosions or vehicle collisions.
Fluid-Structure Interaction: The study of the interaction between a fluid and a structure, including the effects of fluid forces, deformation of structures, and flow patterns.
Nonlinear Dynamics: The study of the behavior of structures subject to non-linear forces or deformations, including buckling and collapse.
Seismic Response: The study of the response of structures to seismic waves, including the effects of foundation and soil interactions.
Dynamic Load Testing: The use of dynamic loads to evaluate the behavior of a structure or component.
Modal Analysis: The study of the natural frequencies and modes of vibration of a structure or system.
Fatigue Analysis: The study of the behavior of structures subject to cyclic loading, such as those experienced by bridges or aircraft components over time.
"For objects governed by classical mechanics, if the present state is known, it is possible to predict how it will move in the future (determinism)."
"For objects governed by classical mechanics, if the present state is known, it is possible to [...] how it has moved in the past (reversibility)."
"The 'classical' in 'classical mechanics' does not refer classical antiquity, as it might in, say, classical architecture. On the contrary, the development of classical mechanics involved substantial change in the methods and philosophy of physics."
"The qualifier distinguishes classical mechanics from physics developed after the revolutions of the early 20th century, which revealed limitations of classical mechanics."
"It consists of the physical concepts based on foundational works of Sir Isaac Newton, and the mathematical methods invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Leonhard Euler, and other contemporaries in the 17th century to describe the motion of bodies under the influence of forces."
"Later, more abstract methods were developed, leading to the reformulations of classical mechanics known as Lagrangian mechanics and Hamiltonian mechanics."
"These advances, made predominantly in the 18th and 19th centuries, extend substantially beyond earlier works, particularly through their use of analytical mechanics."
"They are, with some modification, also used in all areas of modern physics."
"Classical mechanics provides accurate results when studying large objects that are not extremely massive and speeds not approaching the speed of light."
"When the objects being examined have about the size of an atom diameter, it becomes necessary to introduce the other major sub-field of mechanics: quantum mechanics."
"To describe velocities that are not small compared to the speed of light, special relativity is needed."
"In cases where objects become extremely massive, general relativity becomes applicable."
"A number of modern sources do include relativistic mechanics in classical physics, which in their view represents classical mechanics in its most developed and accurate form."
"[Classical mechanics describes] the motion of macroscopic objects, from projectiles to parts of machinery and astronomical objects, such as spacecraft, planets, stars, and galaxies."
"For objects governed by classical mechanics, if the present state is known, it is possible to predict how it will move in the future (determinism)."
"It consists of the physical concepts based on foundational works of Sir Isaac Newton, and the mathematical methods invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Leonhard Euler, and other contemporaries in the 17th century to describe the motion of bodies under the influence of forces."
"Later, more abstract methods were developed, leading to the reformulations of classical mechanics known as Lagrangian mechanics and Hamiltonian mechanics."
"They are, with some modification, also used in all areas of modern physics."
"Classical mechanics provides accurate results when studying large objects that are not extremely massive and speeds not approaching the speed of light."