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  2. Classical mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Classical mechanics is a physical theory describing the motion of objects such as projectiles, parts of machinery, spacecraft, planets, stars, and galaxies.The development of classical mechanics involved substantial change in the methods and philosophy of physics. [1]

  3. List of equations in classical mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Classical mechanics is the branch of physics used to describe the motion of macroscopic objects. [1] It is the most familiar of the theories of physics. The concepts it covers, such as mass, acceleration, and force, are commonly used and known. [2] The subject is based upon a three-dimensional Euclidean space with fixed axes, called a frame of ...

  4. Classical physics - Wikipedia

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    Classical physics is considered the limit of quantum mechanics for a large number of particles. On the other hand, classic mechanics is derived from relativistic mechanics . For example, in many formulations from special relativity, a correction factor ( v / c ) 2 appears, where v is the velocity of the object and c is the speed of light.

  5. Three-body problem - Wikipedia

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    In physics, specifically classical mechanics, the three-body problem is to take the initial positions and velocities (or momenta) of three point masses that orbit each other in space and calculate their subsequent trajectories using Newton's laws of motion and Newton's law of universal gravitation.

  6. Branches of physics - Wikipedia

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    Classical mechanics is a model of the physics of forces acting upon bodies; includes sub-fields to describe the behaviors of solids, gases, and fluids. It is often referred to as "Newtonian mechanics" after Isaac Newton and his laws of motion. It also includes the classical approach as given by Hamiltonian and Lagrange methods. It deals with ...

  7. Action (physics) - Wikipedia

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    In physics, action is a scalar quantity that describes how the balance of kinetic versus potential energy of a physical system changes with trajectory. Action is significant because it is an input to the principle of stationary action, an approach to classical mechanics that is simpler for multiple objects. [1]

  8. List of mathematical topics in classical mechanics - Wikipedia

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    1 Newtonian physics. 2 Conservation laws. 3 Law of universal gravitation. ... This is a list of mathematical topics in classical mechanics, by Wikipedia page.

  9. History of classical mechanics - Wikipedia

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    In physics, mechanics is the study of objects, their interaction, and motion; classical mechanics is mechanics limited to non-relativistic and non-quantum approximations. . Most of the techniques of classical mechanics were developed before 1900 so the term classical mechanics refers to that historical era as well as the approximati