nLab mechanical system

Contents

Context

Physics

Idea
Types of mechanical systems
Examples

Idea

In physics there is the notion of a physical system, the totality of all the entities and processes – its mechanics – regarded as being part of the physics under discussion.

Types of mechanical systems

classical mechanical system
quantum mechanical system
subsystem, composite system

Examples

Harmonic oscillator

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