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  2. Free body diagram - Wikipedia

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    (It may be necessary to calculate the stress to which it is subjected, for example.) On the right, the red cylinder has become the free body. In figure 2, the interest has shifted to just the left half of the red cylinder and so now it is the free body on the right. The example illustrates the context sensitivity of the term "free body".

  3. Instant centre of rotation - Wikipedia

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    Sketch 1: Instantaneous center P of a moving plane. The instant center of rotation (also known as instantaneous velocity center, [1] instantaneous center, or pole of planar displacement) of a body undergoing planar movement is a point that has zero velocity at a particular instant of time.

  4. Kinematics - Wikipedia

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    Kinematics is a subfield of physics and mathematics, developed in classical mechanics, that describes the motion of points, bodies (objects), and systems of bodies (groups of objects) without considering the forces that cause them to move.

  5. Kinematic pair - Wikipedia

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    In classical mechanics, a kinematic pair is a connection between two physical objects that imposes constraints on their relative movement ().German engineer Franz Reuleaux introduced the kinematic pair as a new approach to the study of machines [1] that provided an advance over the notion of elements consisting of simple machines.

  6. Phase portrait - Wikipedia

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    The equation of motion is ¨ + ˙ + = In mathematics , a phase portrait is a geometric representation of the orbits of a dynamical system in the phase plane . Each set of initial conditions is represented by a different point or curve .

  7. Three-body problem - Wikipedia

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    A third body (generally known as a planetoid), assumed massless with respect to the other two, moves in the plane defined by the two revolving bodies and, while being gravitationally influenced by them, exerts no influence of its own. [4]: 11 Per Barrow-Green, "[t]he problem is then to ascertain the motion of the third body." [4]: 11

  8. Phase space - Wikipedia

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    The simplest non-trivial examples are the exponential growth model/decay (one unstable/stable equilibrium) and the logistic growth model (two equilibria, one stable, one unstable). The phase space of a two-dimensional system is called a phase plane , which occurs in classical mechanics for a single particle moving in one dimension, and where ...

  9. Position and momentum spaces - Wikipedia

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    In physics and geometry, there are two closely related vector spaces, usually three-dimensional but in general of any finite dimension. Position space (also real space or coordinate space) is the set of all position vectors r in Euclidean space, and has dimensions of length; a position vector defines a point in space.