Mechanics Quiz

Mechanics is the area of mathematics and physics concerned with the relationships between force, matter, and motion among physical objects.

Scientists such as Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Christiaan Huygens, and Isaac Newton laid the foundation for classical mechanics.

The main theory of mechanics in antiquity was Aristotelian mechanics.

<p>Ibn Sīnā published his theory of motion in The Book of Healing, stating that an impetus is imparted to a projectile by the thrower and viewed it as persistent, requiring external forces such as air resistance to dissipate it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The 14th-century French priest Jean Buridan developed the theory of impetus, which later developed into the modern theories of inertia, velocity, acceleration, and momentum.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Isaac Newton provided a detailed mathematical account of mechanics in his work Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The two main modern developments in mechanics are general relativity of Einstein and quantum mechanics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Classical, Quantum, Theory of Fields</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hamiltonian mechanics, Lagrangian mechanics</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Classical mechanics describes the motion of particles using Newtonian laws, while quantum mechanics describes particles as fields and uses wave functions to describe their motion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Celestial mechanics, astrodynamics, solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, acoustics, statics, fluid mechanics, soil mechanics, continuum mechanics, hydraulics, applied mechanics, biomechanics, biophysics, relativistic mechanics, Schrödinger wave mechanics, matrix mechanics, quantum statistical mechanics, particle physics, nuclear physics, condensed matter physics</p> Signup and view all the answers