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Mechanics

Mechanics (Latin mechanicus, from the Greek mechanikos, "one skilled in machines") is a variety of specialised sciences pertaining to the functions and routine operations of machines, machine-like devices or objects. When preceded by a qualifier, mechanics refers to the study of empirically mechanical functions of a stated quantity or property.

Disciplines of Mechanics

• Acoustic theory

• Biomechanics: study of mechanical properties of biologically created structures.

• Continuum mechanics

• Fluid mechanics

• Lie group symmetries

• Mechatronics

• Newtonian physics = Classical Mechanics

• Quantum MechanicsApply functional analysis to quantum wave functions?

• Statistical mechanics

• Theory of relativity

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