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What is the difference between physics and mechanics?

physics | mechanics |

As nouns the difference between physics and mechanics

is that physics is the branch of science concerned with the study of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy while mechanics is the branch of physics that deals with the action of forces on material objects with mass.

As a verb physics

is third-person singular of physic.

physics

English

(wikipedia physics)

Alternative forms

* physicks (obsolete)

Noun

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  • The branch of science concerned with the study of properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=(Jeremy Bernstein) , title=A Palette of Particles , volume=100, issue=2, page=146 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.}}
    Newtonian physics''' was extended by Einstein to explain the effects of travelling near the speed of light; quantum '''physics extends it to account for the behaviour of atoms.
  • Of or pertaining to the physical aspects of a phenomenon or a system, especially those studied in physics.
    • The physics of car crashes would not let Tom Cruise walk away like that.

    Meronyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * physical * physicist

    Derived terms

    * aerophysics * astrophysics * attophysics * biophysics * cartoon physics * chemical physics * classical physics * econophysics * ecophysics * gastrophysics * geophysics * heliophysics * macrophysics * metametaphysics * metaphysics * microphysics * modern physics * neurophysics * nonphysics * nuclear physics * particle physics * pataphysics * petrophysics * photophysics * psychophysics * quantum biophysics * quantum physics * radiation physics * radiophysics * sociophysics * soil physics * tectonophysics * theoretical physics

    Noun

    (head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (physic)

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    mechanics

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (physics) The branch of physics that deals with the action of forces on material objects with mass
  • The design and construction of machines.
  • (writing) Spelling and punctuation.
  • operation in general; workings
    • the mechanics of a board game
  • English plurals

    • Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * aeromechanics * analytic mechanics * biomechanics * body mechanics * celestial mechanics * classical mechanics * electromechanics * fluid mechanics * gas mechanics * hereditary mechanics * hydromechanics * magnetomechanics * matrix mechanics * micromechanics * molecular mechanics * Newtonian mechanics * nonquantum mechanics * nonrelativistic mechanics * particle mechanics * quantum mechanics * rational mechanics * relativistic mechanics * rock mechanics * soil mechanics * statistical mechanics * wave mechanics

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