Definition of Mechanics

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Definition of Mechanics
	Mechanics That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies. Related Definitions: Action, Applied, Bodies, Branch, Mathematics, Of, On, Or, Science, That, The, Which

Mechanics Quotations

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
Niels Bohr

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
Taylor Caldwell

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
Simone Weil

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.
Nicholas Sparks

In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.
David Bohm

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.
Margaret Mitchell

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.
Minoru Yamasaki

If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.
Murray Gell-Mann

Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.
Murray Gell-Mann

Mechanics Translations

mechanics in Dutch is mechanica, werktuigkunde
mechanics in German is Mechanik, Handwerker
mechanics in Italian is meccanica
mechanics in Swedish is mekanik

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