nLab mechanical system

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Context

Physics

physics, mathematical physics, philosophy of physics

Surveys, textbooks and lecture notes


theory (physics), model (physics)

experiment, measurement, computable physics

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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

Examples

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