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  2. Mechanical equilibrium - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, the object is in a state of static mechanical equilibrium. In classical mechanics, a particle is in mechanical equilibrium if the net force on that particle is zero. [1]: 39 By extension, a physical system made up of many parts is in mechanical equilibrium if the net force on each of its individual parts is zero. [1]: 45–46 [2]

  3. Statics - Wikipedia

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    The static equilibrium of a particle is an important concept in statics. A particle is in equilibrium only if the resultant of all forces acting on the particle is equal to zero. In a rectangular coordinate system the equilibrium equations can be represented by three scalar equations, where the sums of forces in all three directions are equal ...

  4. Observer effect (physics) - Wikipedia

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    v x is velocity of particle before measurement, v′ x is velocity of particle after measurement, ħ is the reduced Planck constant. The measured momentum of the electron is then related to v x, whereas its momentum after the measurement is related to v′ x. This is a best-case scenario. [7]

  5. Effective mass (solid-state physics) - Wikipedia

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    A classical particle under the influence of a force accelerates according to Newton's second law, a = m −1 F, or alternatively, the momentum changes according to ⁠ d / dt ⁠ p = F. This intuitive principle appears identically in semiclassical approximations derived from band structure when interband transitions can be ignored for ...

  6. Center of mass - Wikipedia

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    Typically, a human's center of mass is detected with one of two methods: the reaction board method is a static analysis that involves the person lying down on that instrument, and use of their static equilibrium equation to find their center of mass; the segmentation method relies on a mathematical solution based on the physical principle that ...

  7. Guyan reduction - Wikipedia

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    In computational mechanics, Guyan reduction, [1] also known as static condensation, is a dimensionality reduction method which reduces the number of degrees of freedom by ignoring the inertial terms of the equilibrium equations and expressing the unloaded degrees of freedom in terms of the loaded degrees of freedom.

  8. Navier–Stokes equations - Wikipedia

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    Assuming conservation of mass, with the known properties of divergence and gradient we can use the mass continuity equation, which represents the mass per unit volume of a homogenous fluid with respect to space and time (i.e., material derivative) of any finite volume (V) to represent the change of velocity in fluid media ...

  9. Lagrangian mechanics - Wikipedia

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    A test particle is a particle whose mass and charge are assumed to be so small that its effect on external system is insignificant. It is often a hypothetical simplified point particle with no properties other than mass and charge. Real particles like electrons and up quarks are more complex and have additional terms in their Lagrangians. Not ...