nLab
mechanical system

Context

Physics

physics, mathematical physics

Surveys, textbooks and lecture notes


theory (physics), model (physics)

Contents

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

Revised on September 8, 2012 12:22:56 by Urs Schreiber (89.204.130.235)