David L. Goodstein
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Vice Provost and Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. Coauthor of The Mechanical Universe and others.
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Mechanics, science concerned with the motion of bodies under the action of forces, including the special case in which a body remains at rest. Of first concern in the problem of motion are the forces that bodies exert on one another. This leads to the study of such topics as gravity, electricity,β¦
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