0
edits
Changes
From Opengenome.net
no edit summary
<p>The discipline has its roots in several ancient civilizations: ancient Greece, where Aristotle studied the way bodies behaved when they were thrown through the air (e.g. a stone); ancient China, with figures such as Zhang Heng, Shen Kuo, and Su Song; and ancient India, with thinkers such as Kanada, Aryabhata, and Brahmagupta. During the Middle Ages, significant contributions to mechanics were made by Muslim scientists, such as Muhammad ibn Musa, Alhacen, Avicenna, Avempace, al-Baghdadi, and al-Khazini. During the early modern period, scientists such as Galileo, Kepler, and especially Newton, laid the foundation for what is now known as Newtonian mechanics.</p>
<p>A person working in the discipline is known as a <strong>mechanician</strong>.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Significance</span></h2>
<p>Mechanics is the original discipline of physics, dealing with the macroscopic world that humans perceive. It is therefore a huge body of knowledge about the natural world. Mechanics encompasses the movement of all matter in the universe under the four fundamental interactions (or forces): gravity, the strong and weak interactions, and the electromagnetic interaction.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">External links</span></h2>
<ul>
<li><a class="external text" title="http://iMechanica.org/" rel="nofollow" href="http://imechanica.org/" rel="nofollow">iMechanica: the web of mechanics and mechanicians</a> </li> <li><a class="external text" title="http://rodsalgado.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" href="http://rodsalgado.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Mechanics Blog by a Purdue University Professor</a> </li> <li><a class="external text" title="http://www.esm.vt.edu/" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.esm.vt.edu/" rel="nofollow">The Mechanics program at Virginia Tech</a> </li> <li><a class="external text" title="http://www.physclips.unsw.edu.au/" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.physclips.unsw.edu.au/" rel="nofollow">Physclips: Mechanics with animations and video clips</a> from the University of New South Wales </li>
</ul>
<!--
